The Fifth Vial

The Fifth Vial

Author: Michael Palmer
Desc: From the blockbuster eleven-time New York Times bestselling author comes a novel of medical suspense that begins with these chilling questions: Who ends up with the blood samples you routinely give for tests? What else are they being used for? Why don't you know? Take a Deep Breath. . . . In Boston a disgraced medical student is sent to deliver a research paper that could save her career. . . . Four thousand miles away in a jungle hospital in Cameroon a brilliant reclusive scientist dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each tortured breath his last is on the verge of perfecting a serum that could save millions of lives and bring others inestimable wealth. . . . In Chicago a disillusioned private detective on the way to his third career is hired to determine the identify of a John Doe killed on a Florida highway with mysterious marks on his body. Three seemingly disconnected lives surging unrelentingly toward one another. Three lives becoming irrevocably intertwined. Three lives in mounting peril moving ever closer to the ultimate confrontation against a deadly secret society with godlike aspirations and roots in antiquity. Medical student. Scientist. Private eye. Three people who will learn the deeper meanings of brilliance and madness truth and deception trust and betrayal. Three lives linked forever by a single vial of blood--the fifth vial.