The mysterious deaths of a showgirl in Las Vegas and a scientist in Boston lead FBI agent Robert Cavanaugh into a deadly investigation into the links between the Mafia and a biotech company specializing in recombinant DNA research.
An increase in the number of healthy Black men dying of strokes in southern Maryland suddenly takes on sinister implications when the cause is found to be a possible bioengineered mutant strain of malaria, and FBI Agent Robert Cavanaugh is called in to investigate