Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anti cancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found.
Early results of the accident seem highly promising. Yet, coinciding with Nicholas Spencer’s disappearance comes news that the FDA is denying approval. Then follows the shocking revelation that Spencer had looted Gen-stone of huge sums of money-including the lifetime savings of people who had risked every penny they had.
Marcia DeCarlo, the thirty-two-year-old columnist for the Wall Street Weekly, is assigned to cover the story. Farley is the stepsister of Spencer’s wife, Lynn, an aggressive PR woman and socialite, whom she dislikes and distrusts.
As Carley proceeds with her investigation, she is confronted by seemingly impenetrable questions: Is Nicholas Spencer dead or in hiding? Was he guilty or set up? Why the sudden reversal in medical opinion of the vaccine from recognition to condemnation? And as the facts begin to unfold, she becomes the target of a dangerous group involved in a sinister and fraudulent scheme........
