Jack Collier is a brilliant but troubled Ph.D. candidate at Harvard - the kid from the wrong side of the tracks. But he has an idea that will make medical history: train Strep A bacteria (also known as flesh eating bacteria) to attack tumors rather than healthy flesh. When his mentor, a renowned professor, steals Jack's idea and sets him up to get expelled from Harvard, Jack is devastated and nearly destroyed.
But something has gone wrong with the cure and as Jack travels across the country, he unknowingly leaves a wake of deaths in his tracks. A sympathetic FBI agent wants to find Jack and stop him - before those that want to see his genius silenced find him first.
Jack, a Harvard grad student, finds a cure for cancer. Jack's professor has him expelled in disgrace and takes credit for the discovery. Jack steals the professor's money and the cultures of his cure, then flees to find his true love, who is dying somewhere from--you guessed it. But Jack has somehow stolen contaminated bacteria and is leaving a trail of death in his wake. The chase is on. Dick Hill reads this destined-for-moviedom adventure with an appropriately dramatic treatment of the narration and a limp handling of the cardboard characters. On the technical side, there is some annoying stridency. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Holden Scott is the pseudonym of a 30-year-old Harvard graduate, and the author of four previous novels, all of which have been optioned for or made into movies. He lives in Boston.
