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Acceptable Risk
by Cook, Robin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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About This Item
London: Book Club Associates. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Book Club Edition . Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Book club edition BCA CN3912. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside. ; 416 pages; With billions of dollars at stake, every scientist in America is fighting to discover the next Prozac, the latest 'feel good' drug. Edward Armstrong believes he has hit the jackpot. He has isolated a stunningly effective anti-depressant from a bacterial mould first uncovered over two hundred years ago. But there is more to the drug than anyone could have imagined... .
Synopsis
Acceptable Risk is a 1995 novel by American author Robin Cook. A scientist (Edward Armstrong) discovers a mold in a spooky old house he lives in with his girl friend. In order to test his theory that the discovery could help people feel calm in extreme situations, the scientist injects himself and his fellow scientists with the mold.
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Details
- Seller
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 32689
- Title
- Acceptable Risk
- Author
- Cook, Robin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint; First Printing
- Publisher
- Book Club Associates
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1995
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Book Club Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Thrillers;
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Shelf Wear
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- Book Club Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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