When a teenaged girl dies in his emergency room for no apparent reason, San Francisco physician Dr. Gabe Austin investigates and learns that a megacorporation's newest anti-viral medication may have... This description may be from another edition of this product.
In a high-tech thriller as compelling as today's headlines a team of acclaimed medical writers tracks the impact of one deadly drug--and its lethal course trough the politics of madern medicine. Gabe uncovers two cases similar to the St.Catherine teen's death--and learns that all three victims had been talking the new drug Virazine, Kimberly Lab's hottest, FDA-sanctioned wonder drug. With the help of Kate Reilly his Yale Medical School love, Gabe tracks down Kimberly's chairman, who offers him a lucrative consulting deal; an eccentric chemistry researcher turned wealthy Kimberly executive; the firms frail research genius; and a septuagenarian scientist whose precise exerpiments promise chilling answer to the Virazine puzzle.
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