BlackJack is a renegade surgeon, an unlicensed genius who affects a mercenary air and a heartless demeanor. He works for the rich, commanding multimillion-dollar fees for his unparalleled services, though he always seems to come through for the poor, disadvantaged and innocent in the end. But whether working for cash or veiled compassion, he rarely fails. So when a 14-year-old patient of his dies of an apparent relapse of a heart condition BlackJack had treated, the black-market doctor is badly shaken.
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The autopsy only deepens his confusion. The teenager's internal organs show signs of advanced decay, typical of an elderly woman's--decay that wasn't there when BlackJack operated. As he concentrates on the case, he ignores a series of increasingly insistent recruiting calls from an anonymous woman with an unstated problem and a blank check. But when the woman kidnaps his young assistant, he's forced to deal with her.
For the past two years, so-called "supermen" have been appearing all over the globe--ordinary individuals who suddenly developed extraordinary, world-class physical or mental talents. Now they're all dying horribly, of the same rapid necrosis that killed BlackJack's young patient. He finds himself working with the best reseachers and medical minds money can buy, looking for a cure to the syndrome. But it quickly becomes obvious that he really needs to be looking for the cause of the superman phenomenon, while he still has a chance.
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