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Dr. Olembé of Lorenex Biotherapeutics believes he has the cure for cancer – albeit in its infancy. He finds himself on the brink of his first human trial. Things do not go to plan, reawakening old enmities between conventional medicine and vanguard therapy.

DCI Dárdai of Thames Valley Police investigates. Barely has he finished questioning Dr. Olembé, when a body is discovered in a terraced house in Jericho, Oxford. Was it suicide? Does it relate to the Olembé affair? Are there deeper, darker elements at work? Dárdai reluctantly enlists the help of Professor Konstantin Vadimovich Zolotov – failed medical student, former samizdat dissident, part-time epicure, incumbent Head of Russian and East European Studies at Clapperton College. Two distinct methodologies collide. But just how much does Zolotov already know about the case? And what is his real reason for wanting it resolved? The stakes are high, the dénouement chilling…