SERUM

During East Timor’s 1999 violent struggle for independence, Australian marine biologist Professor Marcus Glasson watched helplessly as a brutal militia leader abducted eight-year-old Noi de Jesus. 

It has taken eighteen years to fulfil his promise to rescue her. A rescue that offers the opportunity to test his latest discovery on the pregnant Noi. But, his death leaves Noi alone in a strange country with no ID, and after being assaulted, finds herself hospitalised in a coma.

Immigration profiler Kailee Banks is given the case to identify the girl as others race to find her and the source of a serum that will keep her and her unborn baby alive.

Death, greed, corruption and betrayal challenge the outcome.

A book of fiction that pilots the reader to the real possibilities that biological research continues to uncover.