'Contagion' is a medical thriller book written by Robin Cook. It has a very intriguing plot and it is considered as one of the famous books of Robin Cook.
Plot summary of "Contagion"
Dr. Jack Stapleton is an ophthalmologist running his practice. He loses his practice to a medical giant who wants to earn money through his practice. Jack Stapleton also loses his family in an airline tragedy. He becomes an absolute nobody after losing his practice and after his family members are killed.
He feels he lost everything in life. But he slowly regains strength and motivation to start things once again from the first. He starts his work in pathology again and wants to start his practice in a new place and wants to make name through his practice. Though it is difficult to start once again from the first and go through all the things happened earlier, he is ready for that and he is determined to achieve what he wants to achieve.
He selects New York to start practice at as he thinks that the city suits his changed prospect of life. He thinks his mood matches well with the cold and strange New York. He starts his practice there.
Jack Stapleton thinks that he might not care for pain of people much as he went through lot of hell in life. But after seeing a series of very dangerous, lethal and vulnerable diseases spread by a deadly influenza attacking young, old, kids and everyone, he feels pain a suspicion about the incidents arises in him.
Soon he finds that the probable reason for this outburst of these illnesses is the set of hospitals which are run by the same medical giant to whom he lost his ophthalmology practice. He realizes that he was trapped in a web of conspiracies which are of lethal proportions. He goes in search of truth and to reveal it. In this process, he meets an art director at an advertising firm. Her name is Terese Hagen. Though she seems a very unlikely pair for him both on personal and professional front at first, they fall in love.
Both of them, together try to find the real reason for the spreading of the diseases and the substantial evidence for that. They succeed in finding the reason and they also reveal the facts infront of everyone.
It is a very thrilling and interesting novel which keeps the reader glued to it. The best parts of the book are definitely the unique love between Jack Stapleton and Terese Hagen, and the way they reveal the true reasons behind the spreading of diseases.
