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{{Short description|Book series by Robin Cook}}
{{Infobox book series
| name          = Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series
| books         = Blindsight<br>Contagion<br>Chromosome 6<br>Vector<br>Marker<br>Crisis<br>Critical<br>Foreign Body<br>Intervention<br>Cure<br>Death Benefit
| author        = [[Robin Cook (American novelist)|Robin Cook]]
| image         = Contagion Cover.jpg
| caption       = Cover to the 1995 novel ''Contagion''
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| country       = United States
| language      = English
| genre         = [[Medical thriller]]
| publisher     = [[Putnam Adult]]
| pub_date  = 1992 - current
| media_type    = Print ([[Hardback]], [[Paperback]]), E-book, audiobook
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The '''''Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series''''' is an ongoing series of [[New York Times Bestselling]] [[medical thrillers]] by [[Robin Cook (American novelist)|Robin Cook]] that follows [[pathologist]] Jack Stapleton and his co-worker (and later wife) Laurie Montgomery as they attempt to solve the various mysteries that come across their path.<ref>{{cite news|title=Paperback Best Sellers: February 28, 1988|work=The New York Times |date=28 February 1988 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/28/books/paperback-best-sellers-february-28-1988.html|access-date=24 February 2013}}</ref>
==Synopsis==
The series follows Jack Stapleton, a medical examiner and pathologist who spends most of his free time focusing on various medical cases in order to avoid having to think about the deaths of his wife and children. He teams up with his co-worker and fellow pathologist Laurie Montgomery in order to solve various crimes, with the two eventually falling in love and marrying. Laurie was earlier in a relationship with Lou Soldano, a police officer and Jack and Laurie's mutual friend.
==Bibliography==
#''[[Blindsight (Cook novel)|Blindsight]]'' (1992)
#''Contagion'' (1995)
#''Chromosome 6'' (1997)
#''Vector'' (1999)
#[[Marker (novel)|''Marker'' (2005)]]
#''Crisis'' (2006)<ref>{{cite web|title=Review: Crisis|url=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/dbsearch/showreview.cfm?Num=26849|publisher=AudioFile|access-date=19 February 2013}}</ref>
#''Critical'' (2008)
#''Foreign Body'' (2009)
#''Intervention'' (2009)<ref>{{cite web|title=Avoiding excessive sensationalism|date=6 November 2009 |url=http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-11-06-avoiding-excessive-sensationalism|publisher=Mail & Guardian|access-date=24 February 2013}}</ref>
#''Cure'' (2010)
#''Pandemic'' (2018)
#''Genesis'' (2019)
#''Night Shift'' (2022)
#''Manner of Death'' (2023)
==Reception==
Critical reception for the series as a whole has been mixed to positive,<ref>{{cite web|title=Fiction review: Crisis| url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-399-15357-0|work=Publishers Weekly|access-date=19 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Books: Situation's 'Critical' in medical thriller|url=http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070826/LIFE/708260311|publisher=Record Online|access-date=24 February 2013}}</ref>  with later novels receiving mixed reviews from critics.<ref>{{cite news|last=Deegan|first=Carol|title=Cook's Latest Thriller Isn't So Thrilling|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IqEiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oqoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4036,6669221&dq=crisis+robin-cook+stapleton&hl=en|access-date=19 February 2013| newspaper= [[Beaufort Gazette]] |agency= AP |date=August 13, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Cook is Smokin'| first= Waka| last= Tsunaka| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_C4iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GqcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4116,1893034&dq=jack-stapleton+robin+cook&hl=en| access-date= September 15, 2016|newspaper=Reading Eagle|date=April 19, 1997}}</ref> Sales for the series have been good, with several of the novels placing on [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller]] lists.
==Television series==
In 1999 Cook announced that he was in talks with [[Jerry Bruckheimer]] to create a television series centered on the novels.<ref>{{cite news|title=Inside Track; Cook pipes up for Hub fountain|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/39866961.html?dids=39866961:39866961&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+19%2C+1999&author=GAYLE+FEE+%26+LAURA+RAPOSA&pub=Boston+Herald&desc=Inside+Track%3B+Cook+pipes+up+for+Hub+fountain&pqatl=google|access-date=24 February 2013|newspaper=Boston Herald|date=Mar 19, 1999}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> No further information has been given about a potential series adaptation since that time.
==References==
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{{Robin Cook (novelist)}}
[[Category:Novels by Robin Cook]]
[[Category:Medical novels]]
[[Category:G. P. Putnam's Sons books]]