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本篇系《狮身人面像》、《昏迷》的作者罗宾·科克1985年的新作。医学院学生亚当,因违父命与女舞蹈演员詹妮弗结婚,失去了家庭经济来源,只得到一家医药公司当推销员。经历了一连串意外事件之后,亚当对医药公司举办的“游船研讨会”产生了怀疑,为使妻子免遭意外,他冒名顶替打入这个研讨会以便探明公司的内幕,经过怵目惊心的波折,终于揭开了这家公司以学术研讨为名,利用人脑控制技术改变医生开处方的习惯,以适应医药公司销售需要的真相。作者以高度的想象力和扣人心弦的情节,展现了美国医药业日益商业化的恶果。
This book is the new work of Robin Cork, author of The Sphinx and Stupor. Adam, a medical school student, marries Jennifer, a female dancer, for loss of her family’s financial resources and only gets a salesman for a pharmaceutical company. After a series of unexpected incidents, Adam became suspicious of the “Boat Seminar” held by pharmaceutical companies. In order to save his wife from accidents, he stole into the seminar in order to ascertain the inside story of the company. After astonishing twists and turns, finally Opened the company in the name of academic research, the use of human brain control technology to change the habit of doctors to prescribe to meet the needs of the pharmaceutical company sales. With a high degree of imagination and exciting plot, the author shows the increasingly commercialized consequences of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry.