01198cam a2200217 4500 264279938 TxAuBib 20110413120000.0 071204s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780312343514 0312343515 (OCoLC)71126930 TxAuBib Palmer, Michael. The Fifth Vial. New York, NY : St. Martain's Press, 2007. 372 p. In Boston, a disgraced medical student is sent to deliver a research paper that could save her career… In a hospital four thousand miles away, a reclusive scientist, dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each tortured breath his last, is on the verge of perfecting a serum that could save millions of lives―and bring others inestimable wealth… In Chicago, a disillusioned detective is hired to determine the identity of a John Doe, killed on a Florida highway, with mysterious marks on his body. Three seemingly disconnected lives, surging unrelentingly toward one another― and linked forever by THE FIFTH VIAL. 20071204. TXHAM