The Shadow Chaser

the long version

"Andre Lemoine, one of the world's top genetic researchers, has an obsession - to save the growing legions decimated by AIDS. And, in particular, to save the young African boy he has adopted and who is dying from the terrifying disease." "But time is fast running out for eight-year-old Eban." "Battling not only with a chaotic personal life - one brother a priest, the other a thief; a neurotic, near-suicidal wife - but also the sinister efforts of two ambitious, ruthless rivals bent on success at any cost, Andre's race to find a cure takes him from the deep jungles of Africa and Brazil to the seamiest corners of Paris." "For Andre the stakes have never been higher. Because - as the threat to those he loves looms ever larger - it becomes a race that takes him through the shadows of his family's dark past. And - ultimately - forces him to face death head-on."--BOOK JACKET.