British diplomat in Nairobi, is told that his activist wife, was killed while traveling with a doctor friend in a desolate region of Africa. Investigating on his own, the diplomat discovers that her murder, reportedly done by her friend, may have had more sinister roots.
He uncovers a corporate scandal. KVH (Karel Vita Hudson), a large pharmaceutical company working under the cover of AIDS tests and treatments, is testing a tuberculosis drug that has severe side effects. Rather than help the test trial subjects and begin again with new medicine, KVH covered up the side effects reported in the tests, and only improved the drug in anticipation of a massive, multi-resistant tuberculosis outbreak.
As he begins to piece together the final report on the fraudulent drug tests, he learns that the roots of the conspiracy stretch further than he could have imagined; to a German pharmawatch NGO, an African aid station, and most disturbingly to him, corrupt politicians in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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