"From the very start, Dr. Carroll Monks knows that the
businessman dumped from a limousine in the parking lot of
Mercy Hospital isn't a typical San Francisco junkie. Even
after Monks rushes the dying man inside and brings him
back from the precipice of a heroin overdose - after the
danger has, seemingly, passed - Monks senses that
something more sinister is brewing." "Just how sinister,
he couldn't have guessed. First a phalanx of lawyers and
doctors descends on the hospital and whisks the man away
before Monks can find out more about the suspicious
circumstances surrounding his arrival. Then a small fire
breaks out in the hospital - an act of sabotage that
results in the disappearance of the man's blood
samples." "But the real shock comes the next morning, when
the newspapers report the mysterious disappearance of
billionaire Lex Rittenour. Rittenour, a beloved computer
wunderkind, has long been rumored to be developing a top-
secret technology involving the human genome, the medical
applications of which have the potential to place his name
alongside those of Lister, Curie, and Salk. Now, just days
before the unveiling of his breakthrough, Rittenour - whom
Monks recognizes as the man he saved in the ER the night
before - has, according to his corporate spokesmen, "gone
into seclusion."" What begins for Monks as an inquiry into
Rittenour's disappearance unearths something far more
diabolical - the horrific facts behind genetic research
done in Rittenour's name - and pits him against a
corporation of dubious ethics, ruthless commando-style
tactics, and a multibillion-dollar motivation to protect
its dark secrets.
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