After 8 years of focused research, Neurologist Dr. Cosmo Patrini finds a protein factor that reverses the weakness and death sentence of muscular dystrophy’s victims. To test the safety of the drug in humans, he injects himself and finds that he has the strength of 15 men, as judged by his holding up the collapsing baggage claim apparatus at Boston’s Logan Airport. Three witnesses to the event seek the superhero’s secret. Dr. Gerhard Hardt, a German cardiology drug researcher, and Dr. Sin Woo Boto, a Chinese pharmaceutical company physician, vie for possession of the molecule. A third man is a popular television aerobic exercise celebrity who threatens Patrini’s anonymity with exposure unless he endorses his TV program.
The Germans and the Chinese plan to infiltrate Patrini’s professional and domestic life to wrest the secrets of the drug from his Harvard Medical Center laboratory. German scientists seek Patrini’s drug to replace their off-patent heart failure medicine.
The Chinese need Patrini’s discovery to amass an army of superhumans for a world domination agenda. Dr. Boto directs his team to eliminate all competition for sole possession of the Myosin Factor, including the TV aerobic star threatening Patrini with media exposure. A Chinese spy posing as a high school student enters the family structure as a fellow student and friend of Patrini’s son.
The U.S. Government is interested in the Myosin Factor’s potential use in the military. It uses agent Lazlo Pennypacker, who is enrolled as Patrini’s PhD student, to determine what the Germans, Chinese, and TV star are doing.
Throughout the complex and possible chaotic interaction, the Myosin Factor proves effective in multiple sclerosis, congestive heart failure, and muscular dystrophy. Pennypacker’s boss, Colonel Merlin Sweeney, uses CIA and FBI resources to uncover the faceted plot. Intertwining the intrigue is the naive, benevolent goal of Dr. Patrini and his chief researcher, Dr. Jimson Ukker, who administer the as yet non-FDA-approved Myosin Factor illegally to select patients.
A stunning, sometimes comical, sometimes violent, climactic meeting with all players is inevitable.
Author Peter Glassman 