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...week, the Boston Phoenix runs an ad from the “Egg Donor Program” that offers $5,000 “plus karma credits” to females willing to donate their eggs. Such advertisements, and others that specify the desirability of Ivy League ovaries, inspired Cook??s most recent true-to-life medical thriller Shock, published in August 2001. Cook tackles the infertility industry and its unregulated gray areas—a perfect setting for intrigue, horror and probing social commentary. “There is an active kind of search for women...
...Cook??s books are fashioned to reflect the medical issues of the times. He sees himself as a teacher whose vehicle is the mass-market paperback and he shares his opinion throughout the 370-page novel. The plot revolves around two Harvard graduate students (one getting a Masters degree in economics, the other in Biology) who respond to a Crimson ad seeking young, attractive Ivy League egg donors...
...former student at the Kennedy School of Government (1976-77) and current Massachusetts resident, sticking close to home appealed to Cook. And if the past is any indication, this novel may become a movie. (Cook??s 1977 Coma was made into a 1997 movie of the same name.) Cook is already thinking about where the flick might be filmed. “I hate seeing all these movies set in Southern California,” he says. “It’s fun to see a movie shot here...
...area schools, including Boston University, Northeastern and Harvard. Because the clinic accepts only 1 in 30 donors, clinic administrators feel that catering to students helps them streamline their stringent selection process. “Almost all of our donors come from colleges,” Arnone says. Unlike in Cook??s plot, Arnone says the Boston clinic does not pay top-dollar for Ivy League sperm. He says that while other banks are willing to pay up to $100 more to donors with Ph.Ds and doctorates, the New England Cryogenic Center isn’t convinced Ivy League...
When informed of the basics of the plot, Arnone laughs out loud. “What is this, Nancy Drew?” he asks. Cook??s take on his characters is slightly different. “When you’ve written a few [books]—I think Shock is my 23rd—you begin to create your characters for the story,” he says. “What I try to do, and what I think sets my books apart from, if you will, the best-selling genre, is that...