A professor of the School of Medicine University of California Davis, Imran Khan earned his Ph.D. of Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York Researching tuberculosis has taken him worldwide, leading to trials of novel TB diagnostics in endemic countries like India, and revealing the throat of poverty to the planet His MBA at California State University Sacramento, and a biotechnology company he founded equipped him with international strategic-management skills and gave him insight into the deadly friction between the haves and have nots. This explosive, and all too real situation is the back drop of this novel