When Richard Powell, a cancer specialist, develops malignant melanoma and dies, his wife, Terri is on a mission to cure the disease that killed her husband.

Author’s note: Since the original date of publication, early surgery is still the best treatment, but many new medications esp. Immunotherapy is offering hope.

When a drug courier is murdered to obtain an experimental and promising treatment for malignant melanoma, a chain of events is unleashed—with devastating consequences.

Kendall Pharmaceuticals, a company with questionable values, is experimenting with a vaccine against tuberculosis, which is showing surprising effects in controlling malignant melanoma. While Kendall is enthralled with the economic potential of such a treatment, Terri and researchers are leery and have many unanswered questions.

Kendall succeeds in pushing the vaccine into clinical trials, and the results are miraculous. Soon, however, it becomes clear that the vaccine might not be the miracle everyone was hoping for.

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