The Carrier » (Unabridged)

Holden Scott is the pseudonym of a 30-year-old Harvard graduate, and the author of four previous novels, all of which have been optioned for or made into movies. He lives in Boston.

Jack Collier is a brilliant but troubled Ph.D. candidate at Harvard - the kid from the wrong side of the tracks. But he has an idea that will make medical history: train Strep A bacteria (also known as flesh eating bacteria) to attack tumors rather than healthy flesh. When his mentor, a renowned professor, steals Jack's idea and sets him up to get expelled from Harvard, Jack is devastated and nearly destroyed.

But something has gone wrong with the cure and as Jack travels across the country, he unknowingly leaves a wake of deaths in his tracks. A sympathetic FBI agent wants to find Jack and stop him - before those that want to see his genius silenced find him first.

Barnes & Noble Guide to New Fiction

In this "exciting" and "interesting" biological thriller by a 30-year-old Harvard grad, a brilliant Ph.D. candidate discovers a cure for cancer and finds himself pitted against his mentor and the FBI in a cross-country race against time that "resembles a roller-coaster ride." "Hooks you from chapter one," a "bone-chilling, white knuckle thriller" that will "keep you up all night, praying that no one touches you." Dissenting booksellers thought it wasn't one of Scott's "better efforts" and thought there were "too many characters."