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Chris Carrington looses his father to hereditary kidney disease He is painfully aware he may die from it as well While dealing with the agony of his loss Chris is unexpectedly contacted by a mysterious Russian immigrant who tells him his father did not die from natural causes That his father was an unwitting victim of human experiments in the development of biological weapons Pursuing the truth behind this strange revelation Chris learns of Dr Gurevich the scientist who created these viruses He meets Gurevichs beautiful daughter Anna whose innocence charm and intelligence ultimately become his greatest obstacle Unable to contact his Russian informant unable to decipher Russian documents unwilling to use Gurevichs daughter as a pawn Chris struggles to fight symptoms of his own disease caught between the ticking clock of his own illness and the consuming desire for truth