Godplayer

Godplayer is a novel by Robin Cook, first published in 1983 in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Running to about 285 pages, it belongs to the medical thriller genre that Cook is known for, with a plot unfolding inside a hospital setting.

The story follows Dr. Cassandra Kingsley, who has landed a position working alongside her husband, a respected cardiac surgeon, at Boston Memorial, a dream come true for her. That sense of security collapses when a string of mysterious deaths shakes the hospital. Amid a power struggle that pits resident doctors against private practitioners, eighteen cardiac surgery patients die under unexplained circumstances. Cassandra and Dr. Robert Seibert investigate the deaths and uncover disturbing findings, including a surgeon who takes drugs and wields his knife recklessly, as well as lethal intravenous lines.