I previously read the earlier Pia Grazdani novel, Death Benefit, 7 years ago and can't remember much about it other than the character wasn't particularly enamoring and that it was one of the worst Robin Cook books I had read. When I saw this I thought I'd give the character another shot as the scenario sounded interesting having enjoyed Crichton's Micro. Nano, sadly, continues the trend laid down by Death Benefit. It's not particularly exciting, the Pia character seems unrealistically magnetic to trouble, and even though she is the heroine of the book somehow in wrapping up the story we do not find out what has happened to her. It's almost as if the author just said that's enough pages for the book contract and wrapped it up in as few pages as possible.

I'm a huge fan of Robin Cook's Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series, it's genuinely interesting and the characters are likable and relatable, this book however seems like it wasn't even written by the same person who wrote the former. If you are interested in a good medical thriller, check those out and pass on Nano, if you're interested in a good thriller about nanotechnology check out Critchton & Preston's Micro. ( )

Disappointed. Suffered through to the end, only to have my hopes for a conclusion dashed upon the rocks of obscurity.

I am loathe to give book a two-star rating, but I am unashamed to proclaim this as a meager one-star.

This book would never have been published if it had not been penned by a best-selling author. It is an incomplete first draft, rushed to market, which has the potential of a good story and glimmers of good writing sprinkled throughout, but the potential and glimmers are lost in the mire of:
1. A protagonist with no empathetic value,
2. A protagonist with no true motivation and so she becomes a plot device,
3. An antagonist who is flatter than 3-day-old road kill,
4. Persistent "head-hopping" (point-of-view shifts) that most readers don't mind, but drives me as an author crazy, since I've been required to weed them out of my own narrative, and
5. A contrived plot that ends in a fog.

To all authors and publishers: Don't be a slave to the deadline. If the story doesn't work or is underCOOKed, don't print it. ( )

This is probably Robin Cooks worst book ever. ( )

An average book..heroine victorious over villains...her employer. ( )

I hadn't read any of Cook's novels in a while so I thought I'd give Nano a chance. Premise was rather interesting .. but execution a bit over the top for my tastes. An odd ending, as well. The main character, Pia, was a grand pain in the ass, however, so I really wasn't that disappointed. ( )