A NOVEL STRAIGHT OUT OF TOMORROW’S BIOTECH HEADLINES A dogged reporter with a leading European financial newspaper is determined to uncover the complicated truth about the estate of Arturo Dermott, a recluse and one of the world’s richest, most prolific inventors. A handwritten note discovered in an archive in Rome turns a routine assignment into a convoluted quest. He and an Italian archivist are launched on a dangerous detour that leads to unlikely informants in Valencia, to secret labs in China and South Korea, and to a young man growing up in Boston who struggles to understand and come to terms with an invisible past that sets him apart. He is not who he thinks he is, but neither is he the person those around him think he is.