When noted underworld figure, Franconi, dies and his body disappears his competitors are blamed. But then the body reappears minus a liver. Jack Stapleton and his colleague find their way to Africa where the mystery deepens.

When Shawn Daughtry, an archeologist and biblical scholar, makes a startling discovery with ecclesiastical and medical implications, two of Shawn's former college classmates attempt to keep Shawn's findings from the public.

"New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller. When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Fearful of a repeat on the one hundredth anniversary of the nightmarish...

"Due to Jack Stapleton's ongoing recovery from his near-death confrontation with a serial killer, his wife Laurie Montgomery, the NYC chief medical examiner, is carrying the load both at work and at home. When she insists an underperforming pathology resident named Ryan Sullivan assist her on a suicide autopsy, Laurie unknowingly provokes an emotional storm in the trainee. So, when Ryan himself appears on the medical examiner's table days later, an...