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Hello everyone. Time for another post! I promise to make this one truly short (at least short for me lol) First I’d like to personally thank all those people who have taken the time to comment about CHARLATANS. It has been so encouraging for me to read them as I start work on my next book. Of course I have to say that I also appreciate hearing so many positive responses. As I have said in previous posts, there is always the concern that your readers are not going to like what you have done even though your goal is to capture and keep their interest and make reading fun, enlightening, and thought provoking. As I have said in the past, I started to write medical thrillers to make people aware of problems associated with the medical-industrial complex, and I continue to do so. Knowing that the system doesn’t always have the best interests of patients at the forefront is the first step in protecting one’s self and one’s family. It is also hopefully the first step in changing the system to be better. We all have a responsibility to let our representatives in congress know how we think. That is central to the democratic process. Unfortunately for most people it is difficult to know what is going on inside our hospitals and doctors� offices, ergo my medical thrillers. A good example is my book INTERVENTION, which I recently quickly reread for research since it was the last book that Jack Stapleton was the main character as he will be back in the book I am working on now. Reading INTERVENTION certainly opens ones� eyes to the ‘alternative medicine� issue, which is an important issue. Unfortunately many too many people fall into the hands of a ‘side� industry that is a waste of money, time, and even can be dangerous. As an aside, I also recently reread CURE because that is the last time Laurie Montgomery was the main character, and obviously she too will be in this new book. That book was about the behind the scenes patent battles involving the lucrative, emerging stem cell industry. That alternative medicine industry is a burgeoning problem that probably warrants another book because there are far too many bogus stem cell treatments out there putting patients at risk like I portrayed in my book SEIZURE. Interesting enough, the patent fights over CRISPR(CAS9), which is what my new book is about, are even worse than those involving stem cells.

With this post, I am going to include some links to articles that those of you who have read CHARLATANS might find interesting. I’m also going to include the FACEBOOK profile page of Gail Shafter, which I think might bring a smile to the faces of those of you who have read CHARLATANS, as it lends a fun but charlatan-like authenticity to the CHARLATANS� storyline!

As a final point I wanted to say a few words in reference to my last post where I talked about the challenges of going from a book to a movie as I am struggling with it in relation to the CHARLATANS screenplay. Now many of you probably have your own preferences as to cases where the transition has worked well and you liked the movie as well as the book or even better, although most often people feel the book is better as it depended on ones� own imagination rather than the movie director’s or screen writer’s. It is easy to google ‘best book to movie adaptions� which will include the usual like THE GODFATHER, GONE WITH THE WIND, STAND BY ME (actually adapted from a Steven King short story), GOODFELLAS (book was WISE GUY), and the Harry Potter books to name a few. But I want to introduce you to one that you will not find on these ‘google-able� lists. And that is the movie THE AFRICAN QUEEN with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. It is an old black and white movie, of course, but I loved it and didn’t even know it was also a book by C.S. Forester until I ran across the book in the room of a Bed And Breakfast. Just for fun, I read the book and also loved it so much that I went back and watched the movie again. After loving the movie just as much for the second time, I went back and reread the book and liked that just as much also. In other words it is the only time I haven’t been able to decide which one is better! So…I challenge you people to give THE AFRICAN QUEEN a try or tell the rest of us in a comment if there is another book-movie combination that you cannot decide which is better.

So that’s it…I confess the post is not as short as I intended, but as I explained before, I am a novelist or I am trying to be a novelist lol All the best to every one, Robin Cook

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