Timeline by Michael Crichton - USED

In the middle of the Arizona desert, a vacationing couple comes across an ill man wandering miles from town. They find the man, Joe Traub, is a physicist and an employee of a company called ITC. However, ITC's headquarters are mysteriously far from where Traub was found. Traub soon dies of a cardiac arrest. The hospital receives an MRI scan later, which reveals that Traub's blood vessels were out of alignment. Traub, being the last of his family, is taken and cremated by ITC to prevent any further evidence about his death from coming through to the public.