This book is about a medical student from Harvard, Sean Murphy. He currently is working at Boston Memorial Hospital. One day he was to be transfer to an other hospital called Forbes Cancer Center to work on a project. But his girlfriend, Janet Reardon doesn't know he is going. He tries to avoid her until two days before he leaves. But on the same day he bumped into her at work and tells her the whole story. She gets upset and wants to talk about their relationship. After that night he drove to Miami, Florida where the Forbes Cancer Center was located. When he got to Forbes, he was introduced to a few people and went back to his apartment. The next night later Janet surprised him by showing up in his apartment. He told her that he didn't know if he wanted to stay because he was reassigned to a different work he didn't like. They made a plan and decided to stay if it worked out. Sean heard that Forbes had a 100% cure on brain cancer. He didn't believe it so he asked Janet to get information like charts on patient to study. One of the patients is Helen Cabot, which had the brain cancer. A few days after she died because the treatments did help her, Sean and Janet went to the place where her body was kept and took her brain. She analysis the brain and tired to make scent on how they treat the tumor. It didn't add up after he did the tests. So they went to a patient that we 100% treated from the cancer and talked to him. After that they went to a small facility that Forbes had up north and broke in. They were in there around 30 minutes and someone caught them in there. Sean pulled out his gun he found and pointed at them. He locked them up in a closet and they went back to Miami. Janet didn't like how he acted the way he did. When they got back to Forbes the guard stopped them. The guard had orders not to let Sean in, so he knocked out the guard and went in. He knew the police would come so he got in a boat and kidnapped the CEO, Dr.