Story Overview

New York Times reporter, Charles Platt, falls upon the story of a lifetime after being diagnosed as having an incurable brain tumor.

Background of Rachael Lord

His diagnosing doctor, Rachael Lord, has a less than stellar past. Five years prior, Charles himself had written a front-page story about the Doctor, a dead geneticist and the Human Genome Project.

The Mystery

The good Doctor was eventually cleared of all charges, but a mystery remained as to the whereabouts of the missing genetic map that was supposed to have been completed.

Charles's Journey

Thus Charles's journey begins, not only in the pursuit of his story, but ultimately for a lifesaving cure for himself.