A la pareja de forenses Jack Stapleton y Laurie Montgomery, se suman en esta ocasión dos amigos del médico: Shawn Doherty, un arqueólogo enfrentado a la Iglesia, y Kevin Murray, obispo de la diócesis de Nueva York. Stapleton se verá atrapado entre ambos amigos y a la vez rivales: lo que Doherty ha descubierto en sus excavaciones pondría poner en peligro la mismísima pervivencia de la Iglesia católica y sus dogmas más esenciales.

I'm not catching up with books that I have missed in order....sadly. I love Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery and I'm delighted that they have become such a series of books in his writing collection. Admittedly the religious connections were somewhat confusing to follow but the story was typical Cook....great, in my humble opinion!! ( )

Review: Intervention by Robin Cook.

Intervention contains two minor plot lines, one about protagonist Jack Stapleton’s struggle against alternative medicine and his newborn son’s neuroblasoma, a life threatening disease. Jack is also a medical examiner doing autopsies and has come across a young woman who died from a dangerous chiropractic intervention dealing with cervical neck manipulation. The reader is informed that not everyone thinks that chiropractors are helpful for some medical issues. Jack confronted the chiropractor and that only led for both men having a discussion that ended into a heated argument.

Jack is stressed about his son’s diagnoses and tried to keep his mind on other issues and honoring chiropractors was a distraction for him. He received a warning when his boss heard about Stapleton’s performance at the chiropractor’s office. Jack started asking around his co-workers and friends if they used a chiropractor foe a medical issue and found out most of them did.

Two friends that he went to college with came back into his life thirty years later. They needed his help with other issues that would distract him from his son’s illness. The story was somewhat predictable but I still enjoyed reading the book ( )

I picked up this Robin cook just before I checked out my other books from the library because it was right there staring at my face from between a hundred other paperbacks. I thought I'd recapture the fun I used to have as a teenager reading older Cook medical thrillers. Biggest mistake over. What the hell is wrong with this guy?! This was the worst bilge i've ever read in my life... I'm almost tempted to reread Coma and Oubreak and all the rest to check if he was always this bad, but another book of this quality would make me want to kill myself, I'm too scared. ( )

I've been quite a fan of the Stapleton/Montgomery forensic pathology/medical thriller series however Intervention is disappointing. There's only a small amount of forensic pathology involved, there's a seemingly unrelated davinci code-like plot involving the Virgin Mary's remains hidden in the Vatican and the ending is a real let down.

I hope the final book in the series is dramatically better than this entry. ( )