Paperback, 114pg

L. Geoffrey Weinburg, Ph.D., M.D. - a fast-lane New York biochemical science superstar one step away from the Nobel Prize and three steps higher than any other mortal - except for Yakov, an ex-classmate from Moscow, the only person alive that Geoff can still call an equal - or a friend. Under secret orders from the falling Soviet and very nervous U.S. State Departments, Yakov brings Geoff to early Glasnost Russia to examine a very special survivor of the Ukrainian holocaust of 1932. "Boris" - psychiatric patient number 123,556. A mad, shockingly clairvoyant survivor, who by all biological reasons should be dead. A survivor who was part of one of the most innovative, immoral, vicious and secret plans ever devised by Ukrainian peasants forced to face a winter without a morsel of food. A plot that turned the tables on their Red Army captors and on themselves. Boris is ready to pass on "the secret". And in that secret lies the solution to stopping a plague that has killed thousands in pre-Glasnost Russia and - if not stopped - will kill millions worldwide.