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<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Image:RobinCook Toxin.jpg</td></tr> <tr><th>Country</th><td>United States</td></tr><tr><th>Language</th><td>English</td></tr><tr><th>Genre(s)</th><td>Thriller, Novel</td></tr> <tr><th>Media Type</th><td>Print (Hardback & Paperback)</td></tr><tr><th>Pages</th><td>357 p. (hardback edition)</td></tr><tr><th>ISBN</th><td>ISBN 0-399-14316-5 (hardback edition)</td></tr>

Toxin

Author	Robin Cook
Publisher	G P Putnam's Sons
Released	31 December 1998

Toxin is the 1998 suspense thriller book written by Robin Cook.

[edit] Plot summary

Dr. Kim Reggis, one of the country's top cardiac surgeons finds himself ill equipped to deal with a medical disaster involving his own daughter, Becky. Recently divorced, he takes his daughter out for a fast food meal, and Becky becomes ill with E. Coli . Soon after, Becky dies after Kim finds out that the specific strain was E. Coli 0157:H7. Half crazed by his daughter's death, Kim tried to find out how and why his daughter got sick. Eventually he finds out, but it cost many peoples lives.

[edit] Characters in "Toxin"

• Kim Reggis – doctor of medicine, protagonist
• Becky Reggis – Kim's daughter who dies of E. Coli

Preceded by: Invasion

Robin Cook novels 1998

Succeeded by: Vector