What starts as food poisoning on a vacation to Egypt spirals into a medical nightmare. Psychologist Tom Patterson is dying, and no antibiotic on Earth can stop what’s eating him alive.
Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee is used to saving others. Now she’s racing to save her husband. Modern medicine has nothing left to offer, and time is running out.
Desperate, she digs into long-abandoned research and stumbles on phage therapy, an almost-forgotten treatment that uses viruses to fight drug-resistant bacteria. It’s untested. Unapproved. Unavailable. And it might be his only shot.
With help from global scientists, secretive labs, and one relentless wife, a buried cure rises from the past.
Can an extinct treatment rewrite the future of medicine before it’s too late?
