Dr. Steven Dunbar works for the Sci-Med Inspectorate, an elite government agency charged with investigating hi-tech crime relating to the world of science and medicine. He is therefore bemused when the deathbed confession of a convicted psychopath lands on his desk. Until it emerges that another man has already been tried and convicted of the crime - a man has already been tried and convicted of the crime - a man whose medical research once sent shockwaves through the scientific community.