Christofferson's gripping novels of medical suspense have drawn favorable comparisons to the work of Michael Crichton and Robin Cook. Now she returns with a page-turning thriller that explores the cutting edge of medicine-and murder. It is a new crime for a new century. Biopiracy: the theft of the healing secrets of isolated, indigenous peoples. Rapacious pharmaceutical companies swoop down on remote Third World tribes, steal their folk medicine,...

Chronicles the life of Ponca Chief Standing Bear, who journeyed six hundred miles on foot to return the body of his only son to his people's traditional burial ground; and also discusses the United States government's relationship with the tribe.