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Average rating3.6
Just when you thought it was safe to eat a hamburger again, Robin Cook – master of medical mysteries, deadly epidemics, and creepy comas – returns with an all too likely villain drawn right from current headlines: the American meat industry. If you've ever wondered where the E. coli bacteria comes from, and exactly how it can ravage the human body, destroying everything in its path, this is the book for you. As usual, in Toxin, Cook delivers solid information, well-researched medical arcana, and a scathing indictment of managed health care.
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I suspect this was a hard-hitting, maybe groundbreaking novel years ago. Now, it's old news and vaguely unsatisfying. There's a whole heap of loose ends, and the book itself pretty much just exists as a scaffold around the message the author wants to convey.