The ending of the story is really surprising and too close to truth. Yet, the approach is different in each case and the details and twists in the story and the ending especially is worth a read. Sometimes I feel that, if you have read one of his works, you have read all. Well, the plot is similar in execution to most other Robin Cook books. Her thoughts are rendered so beautifully, and though doesnt carry any weightage on the entire story, is given as importance as any other character in the book. Sometimes, I wonder at the extent of observation he goes into as revealed by the depiction of some of the characters take for an instant, the Secretary at the Gynaec Section desk. His definition of the characters are apt it just creates the image and the personality he want to portrait in the minds of the reader, without boring you a bit. Aided with the new tool in hand, both of them set up on their work to put two and two together.Īs usual, Robin Cook has succeeded in creating the ambience for a high-spirited thriller. Added to this is the frightening revelation that the brains of corpses have been missing from the Operating Room. Parallel to this main stream of the story, we are given glimpses of young women students of the university, who after some regular visits to the University's gynaec section, start developing strange symptoms with eyesights, seizures and sexual behaviours. Well, the machine can learn itself, when it comes across something extra-ordinary, it has to know it! We know it is not a great thing now, but in 1980's when this novel was written, it was ofcourse, an achievement. The pace quickens when a primitive version of the application is presented to Martin, for his trial. In this work, he is assisted by a keen resident in the hospital's Artificial Intelligence Section, who by far seems the only person who can fit into Martin's way of thinking. The research work Dr.Martin Philips is working on is a computer application that can read Xrays.

Her affair with Martin grows with the story line and finally they decide to get married. Maybe, this book will bring him a nobel prize, he dreams.Ī resident at the Medical Center, she is in her late 20's and in love with Martin Philips. Now, his only hope is his research work he is working on with his colleague.

Now he is lonely and having climbed the corporate ladder to a dead end, he starts to realise that he is not suited to the beaurocracy of management job. And didnt realise it until she decide to leave him. A typical workaholic who became so deeply immersed in work that he took his wife for granted. In his 40s, he is a divorcee, has a charming demeanour and personality which attracts colleagues and students.

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