Her Hidden Genius

She unraveled the secret of life itself. They claimed her discovery.
England. The 1950s. In the cramped laboratories of King's College, a ruthless race unfolds. At stake is nothing less than the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA. Brilliant biophysicist Rosalind Franklin is the first to obtain a clear image of the mysterious molecule of life. She is confident she will win and plays fair. But the world of science, which she enters after a hasty departure from France, is foreign to honesty. Vanity, however, is not foreign to it. Male colleagues see Rosalind's methodical approach as merely a frustrating obstacle on their path to coveted glory. Maurice Wilkins, stung by the scientist's successes, is already seeking allies, while in Cambridge, ambitious James Watson and Francis Crick weave intrigues. Together, they hurriedly rush to build a DNA model and indelibly inscribe their names in history, leaving Rosalind's genius hidden from the world. Marie Benedict, author of numerous bestsellers translated into three dozen languages, has written a novel about an extraordinary woman who decoded one of the universe's major mysteries and the bitter price she had to pay for it.