Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Is Spencer Wingate Robin Cook?

This is is a monumentally terrible book. The character development is weak, the plot implausible, the sexual innuendo with which the text is laced adolescent. I finished the book primarily because I was fascinated to see what aesthetic depths the author would plum.I suppose one can learn something from any experience. Assuming that the sometimes talented Robin Cook actually wrote this book, then the lesson would be the famous old saw about talent being 95 percent perspiration and 5 percent inspiration. Robin Cook is not a great author on his best day, but here he appears to have relied on a dollop of inspiration without bothering with the perspiration part. His record reveals that he is capable of doing much better. I wonder what led him to risk damaging his long career by releasing this well conceived but poorly executed thriller?