The Fifth VialFrom the blockbuster, eleven-time New York Times bestselling author comes a novel of medical suspense that begins with these chilling questions: Who ends up with the blood samples you routinely give for tests? What else are they being used for? Why don't you know? Take a Deep Breath. . . . In Boston, a disgraced medical student is sent to deliver a research paper that could save her career. . . . Four thousand miles away, in a jungle hospital in Cameroon, a brilliant, reclusive scientist, dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each tortured breath his last, is on the verge of perfecting a serum that could save millions of lives, and bring others inestimable wealth. . . . In Chicago, a disillusioned private detective, on the way to his third career, is hired to determine the identify of a John Doe, killed on a Florida highway, with mysterious marks on his body. Three seemingly disconnected lives, surging unrelentingly toward one another. Three lives becoming irrevocably intertwined. Three lives in mounting peril, moving ever closer to the ultimate confrontation against a deadly secret society with godlike aspirations and roots in antiquity. Medical student. Scientist. Private eye. Three people who will learn the deeper meanings of brilliance and madness, truth and deception, trust and betrayal. Three lives linked forever by a single vial of blood--the fifth vial. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 9 |
Section 3 | 20 |
Section 4 | 34 |
Section 5 | 48 |
Section 6 | 61 |
Section 7 | 73 |
Section 8 | 87 |
Section 24 | 210 |
Section 25 | 222 |
Section 26 | 232 |
Section 27 | 242 |
Section 28 | 252 |
Section 29 | 262 |
Section 30 | 269 |
Section 31 | 274 |
Section 9 | 93 |
Section 10 | 102 |
Section 11 | 111 |
Section 12 | 115 |
Section 13 | 126 |
Section 14 | 136 |
Section 15 | 146 |
Section 16 | 153 |
Section 17 | 158 |
Section 18 | 161 |
Section 19 | 173 |
Section 20 | 179 |
Section 21 | 186 |
Section 22 | 193 |
Section 23 | 199 |
Section 32 | 283 |
Section 33 | 289 |
Section 34 | 294 |
Section 35 | 304 |
Section 36 | 313 |
Section 37 | 320 |
Section 38 | 329 |
Section 39 | 335 |
Section 40 | 341 |
Section 41 | 349 |
Section 42 | 357 |
Section 43 | 360 |
Section 44 | 369 |
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