DNA

From the master of scientific intrigue, an unsettling novel that offers a different perspective on the dark relationship between health and business and its applications to medicine.

A twenty-eight-year-old man, in excellent health, suffers a fracture while skating in the park. He undergoes a successful operation, but twenty-four hours later he dies without apparent cause. Shortly after, a thirty-six-year-old woman who underwent a problem-free knee ligament intervention dies under the same circumstances. From then on, a trickle of inexplicable deaths occurs in New York's largest hospital.

Forensic pathologist Laurie Montgomery, who is in charge of the autopsies, begins to worry about these deaths and encourages her colleague and lover Jack Stapleton to investigate them. They discover that the only thing the patients had in common was their health insurance company. A company that requires a genetic analysis of each client to identify future diseases...