Acceptable Risk by Robin Cook is a medical thriller about a woman descended from a victim of the Salem witch trials. As she investigates the illness that consumed her relative, a doctor discovers a chemical compound in mold from the ancestral home. The chemical elicits startling symptoms that promise a therapeutic breakthrough in treatment of emotional illness, but also threatens horrifying side effects. It leads to an emotional rollercoaster for the protagonists with a frightening conclusion.
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