Books
August, 1979
Robin Cook has the natural predatory instinct that assures success in the pulp-fiction field. His second novel, Coma, went for the jugular--everyone's natural fear of hospitals and not always unwarranted distrust of doctors. Cook's latest, Sphinx (Putnam), shows a similar appreciation of mass culture. Our guess is that he saw all those people standing in line for the King Tut exhibit and speculated what 1,000,000 times the cover price of a book on Egyptian relics would add up to. Our next guess...
