Golden Blood

The son of a billionaire businessman develops life-threatening blood disorders following a skiing accident. He is also diagnosed as an Rh-null, a unique blood type shared by less than 100 people in the world. In a race against time Dietrich von Hesse turns to the leading medical experts to find a cure for his son Rupert: the head of research in blood disorders at Stanford University, the woman founder of a hematology research firm in Bilbao, Spain; the leading scientists at Sagarin Pharmaceuticals and SciGen, companies owned by Dietrich von Hesse. While the contributions from all these people are critical to solving Rupert's complex disorders, it remains for an expatriate private investigator from Boise, Idaho and an avuncular priest from Bilbao, Spain to unravel decades of connivance and corruption in the Catholic church to unearth the one person that holds the key to Rupert's rare condition.