Brain

Robin Cook’s medical thriller again revolves around computers like the previous one and echoes Asimov’s concern about the power of machine that clouds the human mind leading them to a horrific extreme. Based on artificial intelligence, Philips Martin of Neuroradiology has conceived of an intelligent medical diagnostics but the machine seems to spell out too many details putting sinister forces at jeopardy. So as the enthusiastic researcher tries to corroborate the results the patients seem curiously to vanish or dead. Trying to cope up with the frustration in medicine and also in his personal life he stumbles upon a startling discovery all of a sudden. It seems that the patients’ disappearance is not a coincident but is a result of an obsessive secret research project. Filled with suspense the novel is again a gory reminder of the ultimate obsession of the researchers where human sacrifice is nothing but a routine procedure.