James Randall Parker is a synthetic biologist who has heard enough at a conference in Rome. He's now sure that no one else has implemented artificial DNA into humans like he has. But out of the lab and out of the U.S. for the first time, he's not prepared for the gauntlet of dynamic personalities that want to steal his work. His world is quickly turned upside down when he's seduced by a beautiful spy and embroiled in a deadly game of scientific espionage that he learns is driven by a secret underground society known as the Nexus. Now Jim Parker must team up with the wife he just cheated on, a...