In “Cure” by Robin Cook, Ben Corey is an American businessman and scientist, who plans to make himself a billionaire by investing in IPS cells—a new sort of stem cells—and buying their patents from the man who made their discovery while working as a researcher in a Japanese university—Satoshi Machita. Except things are not that simple. Satoshi lives in Japan, and he has been fired by the university where his lab books are stored. Corey teams up with the Japanese mafia known as the Yamaguchi, promising them a stake in his U.S. IPS start-up in exchange for breaking into the university, stealing Satoshi’s lab books that detail his discovery, and smuggling Satoshi and his family to America where Satoshi will sign a contract handing over his patent to Corey’s company.