For twelve years, the pediatric trauma surgeon, Dr. Genevieve Neugold, has kept one promise above all others: to sit across from the man who murdered her younger sister and make sure he never walks free.
The next parole hearing is Tuesday. So when her chief of surgery leans on her to fly to Sint Maarten and give a last-minute keynote at an important medical meeting, she agrees on one condition: she will be home in time.
The Caribbean has other plans.
Within hours of landing, Genevieve reconnects with a long-lost college friend, notices two men in suits watching her a little too closely, and pulls a drowning girl from the resort pool. Then her hotel suite explodes. The men in suits turn out to be CIA, and they have a request she cannot easily refuse.
Deep in the jungle of French Guiana, a three-year-old named Juliette is struggling to breathe. Her father, Kent Saint-Marie, leads the Collective of 500 Brothers, a rebel movement that trusts no outsider and will not let his daughter near a hospital. He is also sheltering two Russian rocket scientists who fled a Kremlin kill squad the night Russia invaded Ukraine. One of them holds the secrets of hypersonic missiles that no defense on Earth can stop.
Washington needs a way in. Genevieve is a French-speaking pediatric surgeon who runs toward sick children. To the Agency, that makes her the perfect asset.
She goes for Juliette. But between a bush pilot with his own agenda, a mole somewhere inside the CIA, and agents from Moscow, Tehran, and Pyongyang all hunting the same two Russian rocket scientists, the mission falls apart almost at once. Soon Genevieve is alone in one of the most unforgiving rainforests on the planet, with nothing but her stethoscope, her wits, and the flying lessons her late father gave her as a teenager.
The mystery of the blood stream awaits.
Written by a practicing physician, The Blood Stream fuses high-stakes espionage with real emergency medicine and science. Here, a diagnosis can be as dangerous as a bullet, and the most improvised tools of a field surgeon become weapons of survival.
