Nano

by Robin Cook, Fernando Garí Puig (Translator)

Overview

Tras una experiencia traumática, Pia Grazdani ha decidido abandonar los estudios de medicina y dedicarse por completo a la investigación. Ahora trabaja en Nano, un instituto de nanotecnología enclavado en las montañas de Colorado y custodiado como una fortaleza. Nano pertenece al competitivo mundo de la producción molecular y su proyecto estrella es la fabricación de microrrobots capaces de devorar virus y bacterias.
Un día, Pia sale a correr y se encuentra con un desconocido que se ha desmayado mientras hacía ciclismo. El hombre, de rasgos asiáticos, está inconsciente y lleva ropa con el logo de Nano, por lo que ella deduce que debe de ser también empleado de la compañía.
Pia llama enseguida a una ambulancia, y comprueba que el hombre no respira y que su corazón no late. Sin embargo, incluso antes de que llegue la ambulancia, el desconocido empieza a recuperarse y a hablar. Ella no entiende sus palabras, pero tiene claro que está aterrorizado.
¿Cómo se explica esta milagrosarecuperación? ¿Y qué relación guarda este ciclista con las investigaciones del Instituto Nano? A pesar de sus recientes malas experiencias, Pia no dudará en ponerse a investigar este misterioso incidente.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788401389306
Publisher:	PLAZA & JANÉS
Publication date:	10/02/2014
Sold by:	PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GRUPO EDITORIAL
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
File size:	666 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Robin Cook, M.D., is the author of over forty books and is credited with popularizing the medical thriller with his groundbreaking and wildly successful 1977 novel, Coma. His other bestsellers include Night Shift, Viral, Genesis, Pandemic, and Charlatans. Cook divides his time between Florida, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Master of the medical thriller.”—The New York Times

“Cook can write up a storm and spin a taut tale…a master.”—Kirkus Reviews

Editorial Reviews

Master of the medical thriller.”—The New York Times

“Cook can write up a storm and spin a taut tale…a master.”—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

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.

Kirkus Reviews