Adult

William Sandberg, a military cryptologist, is abducted by a top-secret organization and tasked with decoding a message of disastrous portent hidden in the human DNA sequence. Will William's work stop the spread of a pandemic virus, or are his abductors somehow responsible for the global scourge? Follow Mr. Sandberg and an eclectic cast of characters from Berlin to Stockholm to a mysterious chateau in the Alps in the quest for the truth.

When Eileen Tumulty meets Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those of the men she grew up with in Woolside, Queens, she thinks she’s found the perfect partner to deliver her to the cosmopolitan world she longs to inhabit. They marry, and Eileen quickly discovers that Ed doesn’t aspire to the same, ever bigger, stakes in the American Dream. She encourages him to want more, but as years pass, it becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper psychological shift.

Aubrey Glass has a collection of potential suicide notes just in case. And now, five years --- and five notes --- after leaving her hometown, Rachel is the one who goes and kills herself. There’s a voicemail from Aubrey’s former friend, left only days before her death, that Aubrey can’t bring herself to listen to --- and worse, a macabre memorial-turned-high-school reunion that promises the opportunity to catch up with everyone…including the man responsible for everything that went wrong between Aubrey and Rachel.