Life Isnt Going Well For Myron Bolitar. His Business Is Struggling, And His Father, Recently Recovered From A Heart Attack, Is Facing His Own Mortality - And Forcing Myron To Face It Too. Then Comes Another Surprise. Emily Downing, Myrons College Sweetheart, Reappears In His Life With Devastating News: Her Thirteen-year-old Son Jeremy Is Gravely Ill And Can Be Saved Only By A Bone-marrow Transplant - From A Donor Who Has Vanished Without Trace. Before Myron Can Absorb This Revelation, Emily Hits Him With An Even Bigger Shocker: Jeremy Is Myrons Son, Conceived The Night Before Emilys Wedding To Another Man. Staggered By The News, Myron Plunges Into A Search For The Missing Donor. But For Myron, Finding The Only Person Who Can Save The Boys Life Means Cracking Open A Mystery As Dark As It Is Heartbreaking - A Mystery That Involves A Broken Family, A Brutal Kidnapping Spree, And A Cat-and-mouse Game Between An Ambitious Reporter And The FBI.