Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex a startup pharmaceutical company and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research. Founded by Joshua Boger a dynamic Harvard and Mercktrained scientific whiz kid Vertex is dedicated to designingatom by atomboth a new lifesaving immunosuppressant drug and a drug to combat the virus that causes AIDS. You will be hooked from start to finish as you go from the labs where obsessive fiercely competitive scientists struggle for a breakthrough to Wall Street where the wheeling and dealing takes on a life of its own as Boger courts investors and finally decides to take Vertex public.