Dr. Green's prized research bonobo is kidnapped and now the hunt for this unusually intelligent primate has exploded into violence.┬а┬а┬а┬а┬а┬а┬а
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тАж Rory's in a tight spot. Technically, she's in a lab refrigerator, hiding for her life.┬аWho just stormed the primate facility with a gun, leaving the lab tech Andy shot through the neck, dead in a pool of his own blood?┬аFor Rory, survival consists of folding herself into the only hiding place available to live another day, affording her the opportunity to search for answers to the violence raging around her. And of course, the mystery of her missing research primate.┬а┬а
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A quiet life in Columbus, Ohio is upended as scientist Rory Green finds herself playing the part of sleuth, searching for one of her companyтАЩs kidnapped primates as the authoritiesтАЩ disinterest and dragging feet make life unbearable.┬аAbsent colleagues and antagonistic bosses arenтАЩt helping either.┬а┬а┬а┬а
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RoryтАЩs research involves animal/human communication.┬аAt one time a hot field in military research, it┬аis now in the hands of a small group of scientists dedicated to the behavior and techniques of interspecies understanding. This core of scientists, at one time, included her late father and one of his associates, Dr. Porter, a professor at Butler University and RoryтАЩs тАЬadopted,тАЭ intellectual mother.┬аAs she struggles to find clues, Rory recruits old and new friends to help, and in the process digs up shocking secrets that threaten to blow up more in her life than her scientific endeavors, endangering the primates around herтАФboth human and primate.