"Jack Weaver, Assistant Secretary of Health And Human Services in Washington D.C. is asked to visit a medical laboratory in the Minnesota woods where a voluntary life-ending therapy has been developed and tested without the FDA's knowledge. The new technology enables individuals to pre-determine the date of their death, years in advance. Although several states have approved PAD - physician assisted death, this is the first attempt to legalize a self-administered life ending event. It is so new that applicable laws haven't been written. Several people have already used the Filament and died, as planned. But it hasn't been effective in every case. The process needs more work before it will be sufficiently reliable. Jack is asked to help guide the process, but he knows it needs legal approval, and that it might as easily be used as an untraceable weapon as a healthcare advance. He declines, intending to return to D.C. and involve legal authorities. But then the primary developer is killed in front of Jack, and he is drawn into a struggle between a major European drug company, high level officials in Washington, clandestine agencies, and others he does not know. He can't find a way to distance himself from the process. His life is threatened. Everyone and everything he cares about is in jeopardy - and time is running out. Is the Filament a revolutionary health advance, or the most dangerous assassination method ever devised? Can Jack help stop an out-of-control process before it is too late"--Amazon.com.