Nano [NOOK Book]

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After a tumultuous year in which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life, Pia Grazdani, the embattled medical student from Death Benefit, decides to take a year off from her medical studies and escape New York City. Intrigued by the promise of the burgeoning field of medical technology and the chance to clear her head, Pia takes a job at Nano, LLC, a lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology insititute in the picturesque foothills of the Rockies. Nano, LLC is ahead of the...
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Overview

After a tumultuous year in which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life, Pia Grazdani, the embattled medical student from Death Benefit, decides to take a year off from her medical studies and escape New York City. Intrigued by the promise of the burgeoning field of medical technology and the chance to clear her head, Pia takes a job at Nano, LLC, a lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology insititute in the picturesque foothills of the Rockies. Nano, LLC is ahead of the curve in the competitive world of molecular manufacturing, including the construction of microbivores, tiny nano-robots with the ability to gobble up viruses and bacteria.

But the corporate campus is a place of secrets. She's warned by her boss not to investigate the other work being done at the gigantic facility, nor to ask questions about the source of the seemingly endless capital that funds the institute's research. And when Pia encounters a fellow employee on a corporate jogging path, suffering the effects of a seizure, she soon realizes she may have literally stumbled upon Nano LLC's human guinea pigs. Is the tech giant on the cusp of one of the biggest medical discoveries of the twenty-first century—a treatment option for millions—or have they already sold out to the highest bidder?
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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
This accomplished if familiar medical thriller from bestseller Cook picks up the story of doctor-to-be Pia Grazdani after her horrific experiences in 2011’s Death Benefit, which included being abducted and witnessing a colleague, Will McKinley, being shot in the head. Pia decides to defer her New York City residency in favor of taking a position with Nano, a Boulder, Colo., company on the cutting edge of nanotechnology research. Nano’s development of “a microbivore-based antibacterial treatment” may help Will recover. To no reader’s surprise, Nano’s stereotypical evil businessman/scientist head, Zachary Berman, is prepared to jump across experimental ethics lines in pursuit of his own ends. Though Berman’s company finds a way to enable “a man to survive a massive, normally lethal medical crisis apparently unharmed,” Pia suspects that something more sinister is in the works. The concept of a young medico stumbling on a deadly conspiracy may have been fresh in 1977’s Coma, but more than three decades later, there isn’t much novelty left. (Dec.)
Kirkus Reviews
A medical/scientific thriller from Cook (Vital Signs, 1991, etc.). Nanotechnology operates at the one-billionth of a meter level, and at such a scale, the tiniest details matter. In things medical, nanobots can swarm inside your body and fix all sorts of things--but then, as anyone who recalls the old Raquel Welch vehicle Fantastic Voyage will immediately twig, there are dangers attendant. Enter sexy Pia Grazdani, who last turned up in Cook's Death Benefit (2011) and who is now taking her medical education in new directions as a researcher at Nano LLC, a think-tank-ish lab out west. There are sequelae attendant from that last book, too, not least of them a classmate with a nasty head wound, which, given that antibiotics and "multiple surgical debridements" haven't done much good, has prompted Pia to seek teeny, tiny cures. Her new boss is both dreamy and creepy, and he's nothing but one big wolf whistle whenever he's around her. But that's not so often, since he's always jetting off somewhere or another to cut deals with sometimes shadowy figures--and by the end of the story, Cook has involved Mafiosi from Eastern Europe, Chinese Olympic officials, and various and sundry industrial espionage types. Can Pia discover what she needs to without stumbling into some trade secret and getting herself killed in the bargain? Will she wind up "in a drugged state" in some petro-tycoon's harem? Will Zachary Berman ever shake his hangover and become the good guy we know he can be? A by-the-numbers thriller with no surprises but with the usual satisfactions.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781101606667
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 12/4/2012
  • Sold by: Penguin Group
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 448
  • Sales rank: 5,304
  • File size: 700 KB

Meet the Author

Dr. Robin Cook is the author of thirty-one previous books and is credited with popularizing the medical thriller with his wildly successful first novel, Coma. He divides his time between New Hampshire and Florida. His most recent bestsellers are Death Benefit, Cure, and Intervention.
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Customer Reviews

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 22, 2012

    Now What?

    Robin Cook fans will enjoy the read and the education into the what's new and potentially troublesome in medicine field. However, I think the book should have been labeled "Part 1" because unless there's a sequel on the way, the ending left most of the main characters in limbo. Or at the very least in an unsatisfying position.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 16, 2013

    Good book and an easy read.

    This book kept me reading and Robin Cook is a great
    author, the only thing I wish I knew when I bought the
    book and got to the last Chapter the author keeps you
    hanging to find out what happened to the star of the book.
    Now I have to wait till the next book is published to see
    how it ends.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 25, 2012

    disappointing

    The plot was slow, information repeated chaprter after chapter. The ending was kindergartenish.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 15, 2012

    Where is the end?

    There is no ending. The book just stops. What happened?

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 12, 2013

    more from this reviewer

    Once readers get to chapter 13 the storyline takes off. First yo

    Once readers get to chapter 13 the storyline takes off. First you must read through the ego tripping description of Zachary Berman's thoughts that he is so great, plus all the males "drooling" over Pia Grazdani (such a time consuming waste, in my opinion). Here's a great quote by Pia Grazdani about Zachary Berman: "... he was a dangerous snake in the grass." LOL! You will learn many important facts from this storyline and the central characters. If you enjoy reading about paranoid people with outlandish-sounding conspiracy theories plus the sinister, this novel is sure to intrigue you.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 11, 2013

    ???

    Absurd ending. If you like to know what happens to the main character in a story,save your time and money. Second book I have suffered through with the totally unlikable Pia to have a non ending.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 29, 2013

    Really?

    How many times can Cook jump the shark and expect his readers to still be there? Start with a heroine thats unlovable but beautiful (remind of this every other page), throw in some shallow stereotypes, bury us with techno-jargon, and then tease us with off-stage sexual tension... very unsatisfying, to say the least. Predictable and a chore to read; I wouldn't have finished it if it wasn't a gift. Speaking of finishes, if the rest of the book was like the last 2 chapters, at least it would have moved along with some drive to it. The worst of it, however, was saved for the last page; I thought I was reading a serial installment. I kept thinking, "This can't be all there is!". An obvious ploy to read the next(?) book, but why?

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  • Posted March 26, 2013

    I listened to the audio version and thought it was very good!

    I listened to the audio version and thought it was very good!

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 24, 2013

    Good research on the technology.

    Entertaining enough.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 24, 2013

    Just okay

    Unsatisfactory ending

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 4, 2013

    Terrible ending. Would like to know what happened to the main c

    Terrible ending. Would like to know what happened to the main characters. Hope Cook doesn't die before he writes a sequel.

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  • Posted February 4, 2013

    Very unsatisfying read. No closure at end. Heroine left in limbo

    Very unsatisfying read. No closure at end. Heroine left in limbo. Do not recommend.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 22, 2013

    Interesting read up until the non-ending. What happened to the m

    Interesting read up until the non-ending. What happened to the main character? Perhaps we'll see her again, but I won't know because this is the last Cook novel I'm buying.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 19, 2013

    Great book to read ...R.Cook never disapoints me.

    Sometimes the Medical terms get confusing...but it was still a great read. It holds your attention all the way through to the last page.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 18, 2013

    I loved the book until the end. I don't know if Robin Cook left

    I loved the book until the end. I don't know if Robin Cook left the ending the way he did to continue with another book or he just got tired of writing
    and quit. I like to know what happens to the characters whether its good or bad - I don't like hanging there wondering...

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 11, 2013

    He's back

    I always learn something from Robin Cook's books, nut lately he seems to be "phoning it in". This book returns to his combination of science and scary bad guys.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 9, 2013

    Cook's worst book yet. Formula plot and clumsy character develop

    Cook's worst book yet. Formula plot and clumsy character development. AND the crappiest ending ever! This was the last Robin Cook book I'll buy. 

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  • Posted January 7, 2013

    This story leaves the reader hanging

    I don't know if the auther intends to do a follow up on this book but it leaves the reader hanging. There is no conclusion as to what happens to the main character.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 1, 2013

    An object lesson in bad endings

    As other reviewers have noted, the story simply ends. The reader is left with nothing but the feeling that they'll need to buy the sequel. I for one will skip it. This was my first and last novel by Cooke.

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  • Posted December 29, 2012

    more from this reviewer

    Can't put it down, once you start reading it...

    The technical details a bit hard to read near the beginning; but makes it true to life, and that much more compelling to read. I really enjoyed it, and can't wait for Robin Cook's next book.

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