Robin Cook is skilled at writing medical thrillers. If you haven't read his novels, you may, nevertheless, remember some of them as movies.
Fever was published in 1982.
Charles Martel gave up his medical practice and turned his talents to researching after the death of his wife, hoping to find a cure for cancer, but his research wasn't advancing fast enough and he was helpless when his daughter, Michelle, developed a fever and was diagnosed with leukemia. But it wasn't just the diagnosis that scared him, he discovered chemical waste was being dumped in a local river which ran past his daughter's play house. Up against the research company he worked for, a local recycling plant, and the oncology doctors who seemed to be experimenting on Michelle without success, Dr. Martel takes matters into his own hands to save his daughter.
Braiding Sweetgrass also touches on the problems of chemical waste in our lakes and rivers.
