CURE, by Robin Cook. Putnam, 2010,
396 pp., $26.95 (hardcover)
Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film "The Man Who Knew Too Much," in which James Stewart finds himself involved in an assassination plot while in London, and "Frantic," Roman Polansky's 1988 film in which Harrison Ford's wife gets abducted by Paris-based terrorists, stand out as two cinematic thrillers about Americans abroad accidentally ensnared in international intrigues.