In Boston a disgraced medical student is sent to deliver a research paper thatcould save her career In a hospital four thousand miles away a reclusivescientist ... » 

In Boston a disgraced medical student is sent to deliver a research paper thatcould save her career In a hospital four thousand miles away a reclusivescientist dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each torturedbreath his last is on the verge of perfecting a serum that could save millionsof livesand bring others inestimable wealth In Chicago a disillusioneddetective is hired to determine the identity of a John Doe killed on a Floridahighway with mysterious marks on his body. nbsp Three seemingly disconnectedlives surging unrelentingly toward one another and linked forever by THEFIFTH VIAL «