Shock by Cook, Robin published by Thorndike Press Hardcover

by Terry Brooks

From the "Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, close friends and fellow grad students, respond to a camput newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic northwest of Boston is willing to pay top dollar to a few attractive, slim, athletic Ivy-league egg donors. The women are pleased to be accepted into the donor program by the Wingate Infertility Clinic, and the procedures are done quickly with minimal inconvenence. Both women are impressed by the clinic and its personnel. With her background in biology, Deborah applauds the organizations' commitment to research, while Joanna is intrigued b the business aspect; she had no idea treating infertility was such a lucrative endeavor." Follow their activities as they pursue another course - to find out if their eggs produced children and who the parents were and where the children are. The answers will surprise you and you won't put the book down until you solve the riddle with them.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 2003

About the author

Terry Brooks was born in Illinois in 1944, where he spent a great deal of his childhood and early adulthood dreaming up stories in and around Sinnissippi Park, the very same park that would eventually become the setting for his bestselling Word & Void trilogy. He went to college and received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, where he majored in English Literature, and he received his graduate degree from the School of Law at Washington & Lee University.
A writer since high school, he wrote many stories within the genres of science fiction, western, fiction, and non-fiction, until one semester early in his college years he was given The Lord of the Rings to read. That moment changed Terry's life forever, because in Tolkien's great work he found all the elements needed to fully explore his writing combined in one genre.
He then wrote The Sword of Shannara, the seven year grand result retaining sanity while studying at Washington & Lee University and practicing law. It became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, where it remained for over five months.

Reviews

[Sherry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting material and suspense but the ending was dissatisfying.

[Carol Stanley-Snow · Rating 5 out of 5]

WOW!!!


This book IS a shock!!

READ!!

[Vicki Kreuzberger · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[Martina Anderson · Rating 2 out of 5]

The medical drama was interesting but there wasn't much of it. More running around and arguing between the main characters.