The Year of the Intern

The classic first novel by Robin Cook, the New York Times bestselling “master of the medical thriller.”

“Dr. Peters, the patient has stopped breating and doesn’t have any pulse!”

The nurse’s voice on the phone is desperate, but young Dr. Peters, in his first weeks of interning, is bone-tired and a little afraid. He has forgotten when he last slept.

Yet he knows that in the coming hours he will have to make life-or-death decisions regarding patients, assist contemptuous surgeons in the operati...