About the book

Forensic physician Dr Anya Crichton is presented with a patient who has returned from her honeymoon with multiple sexually transmitted infections. Her husband has none of them. She tearfully denies having had any other partners and Anya believes her. Is this a medical phenomenon or has something more sinister taken place?Anya's investigation into the case results in a ground-breaking study that attracts international attention. Her expertise leads to an invitation to New York to address over three hundred football players in the US Professional League.The enigmatic private investigator Ethan 'Catcher' Rye is assigned to assist Anya during the summit. When an alleged rape involving five football players takes place, Anya is commissioned to investigate.She is immediately thrust into a subculture of violence, sexual assault and drug abuse. No one is what he or she seems.Anya soon discovers a devastating truth about the players that threatens to shut down the eight billion dollar football industry.Now lives, including her own, are in danger...