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Title: Vector by Robin Cook ISBN: 0-425-17299-6 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.14 (105 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Doesn't Seem Like Fiction Anymore
Comment: The anthrax letters sent to government and news organizations after 9-11-01 sent me reading Robin Cook's Vector. And I must confess, it is a page-turner! I picked it up in Penn Station waiting for my train, and I couldn't stop reading it all the way home. Cook's story line is frightenly similar to today's headlines; in Vector, Cook unites a disgruntled Russian emigre cab driver in New York and two domestic terrorists working in of all places, the NYFD, in a plot to release anthrax spores in a federal building's ventilation system and over Central Park. When bodies start appearing as the bio-weapons are being tested, Medical Examiner, Jack Stapleton, becomes the dogged, underpaid, public health professional who won't let the coincidences go away unexplained. Cook's knowledge of biotech lends credibility to the story. If it all seemed implausible when this book was first released, then the time to rethink those opinions has arrived. An easy read for anyone, you will not be disappointed.
Rating: 4
Summary: relevant to today
Comment: This book was amidst several books another booklover passed on to me. I hadn't read his books before and for some reason I have been blessed with several of them from different people lately and as I am a booklover, I appreciated them all.
The book was written in 1999 and was eerily prophetic to what happened on 9-11 in 2001, so it held my interest. Of course, it is a different tale altogether, but still there is a similarity.
Yuri Davydov, a Russian taxi driver, who emmigrated to the U.S. to find the good life is very disillusioned at the failed promises of what he thinks the "Jewish media" (his paranoid delusion) had promised for those coming to America. He can't find a better job than that of driving a taxi. He had worked in a Bioweapons factory in Russia and figured he deserved better.
He hooks up with a couple of white Aryans of the radical right militia belief who want to destroy the "the Zionist government" and are extremely prejudiced against anyone not white, etc. They concoct a plan that the Aryans will supply Yuri with the materials and he would develop anthrax and a botulinum toxin.
Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery, who are both in the pathologist forensics department, are presented with two separate cases that are seemingly unrelated until further investigation. His case is the death of a man from anthrax and her case is about a young man that has been killed in a horrible manner as a result of what looks like his connection to a neo/Nazi gang.
I thought it was a rather interesting story and made me wonder at what causes so many evil thoughts and feelings in people that they would want to do such cruel and inhumane actions. It also makes you wonder about the scientists that develop these weapons and if they ever feel guilty about their satanic projects.
The book makes you think and kept my interest to the end.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good... but not great
Comment: Yuri Davydov is a disillusioned cab driver in NYC with unused skills in biotechnology. He's decided that the "American Dream" is all a bad joke and he'd rather return to Russia and take his chances there. He teams up with some white supremacists to unleash bioweapons (anthrax and botulism) upon the Zionist citizens of New York City. Dr. Jack Stapleton is a medical examiner with a sad past who stumbles upon some unusual cases and becomes wrapped up in trying to prevent the impending disaster.
I enjoyed the story quite a bit, some parts of which were rather tense and exciting. The romantic subplot between Jack and Dr. Laurie Montgomery was a bit tiresome, however, and some of the wording sounded downright "cheesy." And while the white supremacist characters were thoroughly despicable and constantly spouting rote propaganda lines, I found myself feeling sympathetic toward the Russian cab driver (even though he was plotting an attack!). The surprise ending was quite satisfying, however.
I listened to this book on CD and was rather impressed with the many accents and voices the reader used (I may have misspelled some names above because of that). And while I wasn't totally impressed with this book (I think it's the first of Mr. Cook's books that I've read) I'll probably read another by the author. It wasn't perfect but it was kind of fun.
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Title: Toxin by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425166619 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425161242 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 12 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Fever by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425174204 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Harmful Intent by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425125467 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Seizure by Robin Cook ISBN: 0399148760 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 14 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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