When a young lawyer meets a doctor at a scientific conference in Washington DC, his mission is to shut her up…
The company they work for has a breakthrough to announce: the first vaccine against HIV. An international medical trial has found it safe and effective, and the product’s all set for government approval. Only a few days are left before it’s licensed.
But there’s trouble in San Francisco at the trial’s flagship clinical center, where physician Sumiko Honda claims research results were altered and a suspicious number of patients went missing. So the company sends Ben Louviere on a special assignment — to keep her quiet, one way or another.
In a web of suspense, woven from sex, lies, and murder, award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer introduces a character for our time: a sexy, smart, but ethically challenged man, unsure of what’s right and what’s wrong.
“From the moment I ‘met’ him, standing on the corner, sweating through his Donna Karan suit, I knew he would make for great reading. And I was right.” — Clare Wachtel
Signpost: includes some graphic adult content and diverse sexualities
