Bellevue
The Suspensefully Chilling Medical Thriller From the Master of the Genre
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
A young doctor must come to terms with some of the greatest medical advances made in history. Dark truths are revealed in Bellevue, the gripping suspense-horror from New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook.
Twenty-four-year-old Michael ‘Mitt’ Fuller starts his surgical residency at the iconic Bellevue Hospital. With the pressure on, Mitt uses his secret sixth sense – a sensitivity to the nonphysical – to his advantage.
Between the fatigue, stress and nerves, the first few days and nights of his surgical residency are tough ones. Then his patients begin to die from mysterious causes. Mitt struggles to find the cause of the deaths, but things rapidly spiral out of control.
As bodies mount and Mitt’s stress level rises, he finds himself drawn into the secrets of the abandoned Bellevue Psychopathic Hospital building – having defied demolition a few doors north of the modern Bellevue Hospital high-rise. Forcing an unauthorized entry into this storied but scary structure, Mitt discovers he’s more closely tied to the sins of the past than he ever thought possible . . .
‘You’ll find yourself completely hooked’ – Daily Mail
‘Robin Cook virtually invented the medical thriller’ – The Guardian
‘Fiction, at its best, is pure entertainment. But Cook, like Michael Crichton, offers readers a smart dissection of contemporary issues that affect us all’ – USA Today
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Cook (Viral) proves better at describing the day-to-day work of a medical resident than in generating scares in this limp horror novel set in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. Mitt Fuller has landed a spot in Bellevue's prestigious surgical residency program, following in the footsteps of multiple generations of his family. He's not just a nepo hire, though; Mitt was an academic prodigy, graduating from med school at 23. His first days at Bellevue prove nightmarish, however, as he has hallucinatory visions of a young blonde girl dressed in clothing from the mid-20th century, and thinks he sees operating room instruments, such as forceps, move on their own. These disorienting moments pale in comparison to a string of unexpected deaths of patients whose care he'd been assigned to oversee. Mitt's also stunned to learn that two of his ancestors' careers were controversial; one opposed using anesthesia after it was widely accepted, on the grounds that "denying natural pain was the devil's work," and the other mocked germ theory. Cook peppers the narrative with medical jargon most lay readers will have to look up and telegraphs what's behind the possibly supernatural phenomena, lessening the suspense. This falls flat.
