The story starts with a girl Kathereine Collins going to a GYN clinic where she undergoes treatment for some Gynac ailments. She has starts having seizures where she smells a repulsive but familiar odor and then loses consciousness. As the book goes on it tells about other young women around the same age with the exact same symptoms. The story's main character is Dr. Martin Phillips, a doctor in neurophysiology at a New York City hospital. He is working on a self-diagnostic x-ray machine along with his companion Michael, a researcher at MIT. Later on in the story, Phillips starts to discover the hidden experiments involving human subjects for testings purposes. Now that he knows, he realizes he can never tell anyone of bad things would happen. This was the first medical thriller I've ever read, I would definately recommend this to anyone who enjoys exciting and action packed novels.