# Godplayer

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{{Short description|Novel by Robin Cook}}
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{{infobox book
| name          = Godplayer
| title_orig    = 
| translator    = 
| image         = File:GodplayerNovel.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author        = [Robin Cook](/source/Robin_Cook_(novelist))
| illustrator   = 
| cover_artist  = 
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| series        = 
| genre         = [Thriller](/source/Thriller_(genre)), [Novel](/source/Novel)
| publisher     = [Putnam](/source/G._P._Putnam's_Sons) (US)<br>[Macmillan](/source/Macmillan_Publishers) (UK)
| release_date  = May 1983
| english_release_date =
| media_type    = Print ([Paperback](/source/Paperback) & [Hardback](/source/Hardback))
| pages         = 285 pp
| isbn =  0-425-17638-X
| oclc= 45147758
| preceded_by   = [Fever](/source/Fever_(Cook_novel))
| followed_by   = [Mindbend](/source/Mindbend_(novel))
}}

'''''Godplayer''''' is a novel by [Robin Cook](/source/Robin_Cook_(novelist)). It was first released in 1983 in the [UK](/source/United_Kingdom) and United States. It has 285 pages. Like most of Cook's other work, it is a medical [thriller](/source/thriller_(genre)). Working with her husband, a respected cardiac surgeon, at Boston Memorial is a dream come true for Dr. Cassandra Kingsley—until a series of mysterious deaths rocks the hospital and Cassandra's most frightening suspicions are realized. Amidst a hospital power struggle that pits resident doctors against private practitioners, eighteen cardiac surgery patients mysteriously die. Doctors Cassandra Kingsley and Robert Seibert investigate the deaths, making disturbing discoveries, such as a drug-taking, knife-happy surgeon and lethal [IV](/source/Intravenous_therapy)s.

==References==
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{{Robin Cook (novelist)}}

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Category:1983 American novels
Category:American thriller novels
Category:Novels by Robin Cook
Category:Medical novels
Category:G. P. Putnam's Sons books

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