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Publisher's Note
A hospital on the front lines in South Central Los Angeles begins losing patients to infections impervious to standard antibiotics, and a surgeon's search for the truth about a powerful new antibiotic becomes personal when his daughter falls victim to an infection.
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Surgeon Marcus Ford's Trauma Unit at the Willowbrook Medical Center is on the front line, fighting diseases that rage through South Central, L.A. 's violent, poverty stricken inner city. But suddenly Ford finds himself battling an insidious new enemy.Patients brought in to the emergency room begin to develop routine infections that suddenly bloom out of control. None of the drugs in the vast arsenal of modern medicine can check the symptoms...or prevent the bacteria from multiplying. As more and more cases appear, and infected patients throughout L.A. start to die, Ford knows he is witnessing the onset of a mass epidemic a modern day plague.Then the horror strikes home. Ford's thirteen year old daughter contracts the life threatening infection. Her only hope of survival is Omega, a radical, genetically engineered antibiotic that is only rumored to exist. As Ford's search for the phantom drug becomes a frantic race against time, his sole ally is Helen Wray, a pharmaceutical executive who wants to find Omega for reasons of her own. But when Ford becomes a prime suspect in a series of suspicious deaths, he realizes that he can trust no one...not his fellow doctors, not a government seeking to regulate the use of antibiotics, not even the enigmatic Helen, Caught in the middle of a war where powerful men play God and greed can determine who lives and who dies, Ford knows that the only way to save his daughter and countless others is to take on the health care industry itself. What he uncovers is more horrifying than he could ever have imagined.