Jeremy is Myron's son,conceived the night betore Emily's wedding to another man.Staggered by the revelation, Myron plunges into a search the missing donor and gets caught up in a brutal kidnapping and a cat-and-mouse game between an ambitious reporter and the FBI.

Life isn't going well for Myron Bolitar. His business is struggling, and his father has tecently suffered a heart attack when. out of the blue, Myron's college sweetheart, Emily,appears. Her thirteen-year-old son Jeremy is gravely ill and can be saved only by it bone-marrow transplant from a donor who has vanished without trace. Then Emily 'reveals even more shocking news: Jeremy is Myron's son,conceived the night betore Emily's wedding to another man.Staggered by the revelation, Myron plunges into a search the missing donor- and gets caught up in a brutal kidnapping and a cat-and-mouse game between an ambitious reporter and the FBI.