Audio Book Description:
From Boston, a disgraced medical studenttravels to South America to deliver a research paper that could save her career and becomes a victim of anunspeakable crime...Thousands of miles away, a brilliant, reclusive scientist, dying from an incurable disease, is on the verge of perfecting a serum thatcould save millions of lives, and bring others inestimable wealth...In Chicago, a disillusionedprivate detective is hired to determine the identity of aJohn Doe, killed on a Florida highway, with mysterious marks on his body. Threeseemingly disconnected lives, surging unrelentingly toward one another. Threelives becoming irrevocably intertwined. Three lives in mountingperil, moving ever closer to the ultimate confrontation against a deadly secretsociety with godlike aspirations and roots in antiquity. Medical student. Scientist. Private eye. Three people who will learn the deeper meanings ofbrilliance and madness, truth and deception, trust and betrayal. Three lives linked forever by a single vial of blood--the fifth vial.
