Contaminated food brings nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cramps and fever. Heart attacks and strokes are a different story.
That is the puzzle Dr. Allen Nelson faces on the morning of 5 December 1995: a table of politicians who ate the same dinner, and a pattern of arterial and venous clots no hematology textbook can explain. The novel follows a vascular surgeon thinking like one, from risk factors to ultrasound findings to a phone call to the CDC.