Publisher's Synopsis
A riveting new medical thriller audiobook from critically-acclaimed writers Michael Palmer and Daniel Palmer. The First Family is a harrowing story of mysterious symptoms, parental anxiety, and national security. Cam Hilliard is, in addition to being the Presidents sixteen-year-old son, a chess prodigy. A year into President Hilliards second term Cam inexplicably stops playing the game he loved and becomes withdrawn. The First Lady is convinced that the senior White House physician is wrong in diagnosing Cams issue as a psychological one, and she demands that Dr. Lee Blackwood be brought on to provide a second opinion. Lees opinion is dismissed, until Cams spleen ruptures and it becomes obvious that something is horribly wrong. Lee informs the President and First Lady that to make a diagnosis they need to find other people with the same symptoms to conduct additional testing. From there, its possible to identify the gene defects and correlate those to the missing enzymes. Only then can a diagnosis be made and treatment begun. For now, they must face the harsh reality that Cams genes are producing a mutation that appears to be entirely new to science.As Lee delves into this medical mystery, he comes to believe Cam is not the first case of this presentation of an inborn error of metabolism. But when two young people Lee has found, each with exceptional gifts, are murdered, Cams condition suddenly takes on a terrifyingly new dimension. Is someone out to murder the Presidents son? If so, why? As Lee searches for answers he will uncover unimaginable secrets and dark betrayals that breach the highest levels of security.
