Gus Shepard had not known the amazing story of his parents' escape from the Korean peninsula. His father was a young US soldier tasked with smuggling a North Korean genius, Gus's mother, out of the country. The journey was treacherous, and the scientist and soldier nearly didn't make it. Gus's accomplishments are weak when compared to those of his parents. He has a stable but unexciting job with a biotechnology company and dates a woman he can...