Professional Reviews

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The greatest medical mystery in more than a hundred years, the origin of Covid-19 continues to challenge our collective imagination as well as the greatest medical detectives of our time. Immortal in Splashed Ink is a riveting story of scientific intrigue played out through a rich cast of characters on two continents, to reach an ultimately satisfying, even uplifting conclusion.

In Malaysian jungles and the teeming Rare Earth Mines of Inner Mongolia, world-renowned Communist Chinese scientist Dr. Pao Den Chin pieces together a shocking answer to the mystery of the virus origin. On the trail of scientific evidence that his government has all but erased, and haunted by the global implications of his findings, the melancholy genius of Taiwanese descent conceives a plan that may change the course of medical history.

On Long Island, New York, savvy divorce lawyer Aruba Jones is paid handsomely by a mysterious Asian beauty to obtain a divorce from her husband, NYU Science Professor Jack Cedar.  Aruba is stunned when Cedar bursts into her office, claiming that he has never been married and has never even heard of the woman who says she is his wife.  When Jack and Aruba are soon implicated in a shocking terrorist incident and with the FBI in hot pursuit, the unlikely pair are thrown together in a desperate effort to unravel the mystery that has ensnared them.

In a riveting and compulsively readable story with memorable, diverse characters from around the globe who become unexpectedly intertwined, Immortal in Splashed Ink pulls the reader behind today's most important headlines: the origin of Covid 19, Chinese spies at U.S. universities, the interplay between Taiwan and Communist China and the urgent need for global cooperation on issues of importance to all of mankind.