Four people lie dead on the sterile floors of Newton Memorial Hospital. The shooter had been one of Dr. Jack Norris' patients. The chief of fellows is perplexed at how the sixty-three-year-old heart patient would have a gun, and why he would shoot Jack's best friend, Dr. John Connor. Teaming up with local detectives and one FBI agent, a complicated network of scientists and professionals emerge as culprits in a web of biological terrorism and greed.--Page 4 of cover