Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Cast of Characters

Preface

Part I: A Doctor, Two Patients, and Some Tests

Chapter 1: The Good Doctor in Denial

Chapter 2: A Visit with the Family Doctor

Chapter 3: Death Sentence?

Part II: The Disease, a Drug, and Its Industry

Chapter 4: Viral Trojan Horse

Chapter 5: A Weapon from the War on Cancer

Chapter 6: The Days of Acting Up

Chapter 7: Recognizing a Global Pandemic

Chapter 8: From the One Percent

Chapter 9: But, Doctor, I Don’t Feel Sick

Chapter 10: The Delta 32 Mutation

Chapter 11: Calling All Elite Controllers

Chapter 12: Treatment in Hiding

Part III: Treating the Berlin Patients

Chapter 13: The Second Diagnosis

Chapter 14: The Compassionate Use Exemption

Chapter 15: Three Deadly Diseases Move In

Chapter 16: The Comfort of Family and Strangers

Chapter 17: Timing

Chapter 18: Transplanting

Chapter 19: “Perhaps We Have Eradicated HIV”

Chapter 20: An Unexciting Recovery

Part IV: The Cure

Chapter 21: Trials

Chapter 22: Proof of Principle

Chapter 23: The Good Doctor in Court

Chapter 24: Not Even Surprising

Chapter 25: The Promise Kept

Chapter 26: A Child Cured—So What?

Chapter 27: Zinc Finger Snap

Chapter 28: The Abused, the Respected, the Relentless

Notes

Timeline

Acknowledgments

Index