Calculated Risk by David Sekons
Calculated Risk by David Sekons
English | 2026 | Mystery & Thriller
Washington, D.C., 1993. The AIDS epidemic is on every front page, and the cure is hiding in one woman’s blood.
NIH geneticist Dr. Beverly Carter has found a rare anomaly in the human genome that lets the body fight back against a virus the world believes is unbeatable. Her blood holds a cure for HIV, making her the most valuable, and most vulnerable, person in American medicine.
Then one evening, Bev walks out of the NIH building and never reaches her car.
Jack McVay is the NIH’s deputy director, a former Navy SEAL, and the man who loves her. No one can tell him where she went or who would want her gone. But Jack knows what her discovery is worth, and to whom. And he will not stop until he brings her home.
A relentless medical-political thriller for readers who like their science real and their stakes personal.
