As in his other works, Cook makes the main heroine unaware of danger and even defiant towards it. Nevertheless, there is enough facts about it that allow the reader to solve it much time before the ending plus, the theme is found in other Cook's novels, so, the mystery is not so deep. The novel possesses a great dose of suspense and the mystery is solved at the end. The reader can find some resemblances to Mario Puzo's description of Italian crime families. Cook's description of the criminals is consistent with other novelists' handling of the Mafia subject. Also, it is written in a diary style with exact dates. There is a medical heroine who slowly is discovering an evil plot. The style of the novel is similar to Cook's other novels. She suspects there is some lethal compound on the bodies but the laboratory does not find any. She also notices that the deaths were murders and not self overdoses. She thinks she commits herself to the job of discovering the anomaly in the deaths just because of that.

Laurie takes the overdoses personally his brother also died in a drug overdose. Parallel to that, he meets Detective Lou Soldano, who is investigating some killings done by the Mafia.ĭr. Laurie Montgomery is a forensic doctor who is assigned a series of strange overdoses following a pattern: all of them have died of cocaine overdose, are wealthy people and none of them is known as a drug addict. Blindsight is a 1992 novel by Robin Cook.ĭr.

Blindsight by robin cook