Gene Therapy to Die For

David Witherspoon is an epidemiologist working for the National Institutes of Health. While going about his mundane life, he finds himself caught up in a scheme to sell cancer. It starts with an assassination attempt he barely survives, and it won’t be his last. By doggedly pursuing the data at his fingertips, he determines that his murdered boss had a hand in it. A cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute, nearby, had much earlier started the wheels in motion. Soon, the researcher and his cohort in Ukraine both end up dead for their trouble, as a Ukrainian mob boss takes over the lucrative scheme. The greedy mob boss finds selling, especially prolific, cancer to be more lucrative than he ever imagined. The epidemiologist and mob boss find themselves entangled with one another although, at first, never in person. Eventually, they and their respective stepchildren become entangled in a cat-and-mouse game around the planet, and a direct confrontation becomes inevitable.