While the developed world grapples with stem cell research, human cloning, and reproductive rights, pharmaceutical giant Soliton Chemical stakes a claim in the Amazon Basin with a project that leapfrogs these debates into uncharted ethical wilderness. It creates a new species of sentient chimpanzee. When a group of consulting scientists is invited to analyze the animal, they enter a race that will take them from first contact with an alien intelligence through the steaming underbelly of the rainforest towards enlightenment as they unravel a plan so audacious as to challenge the existence of the human soul.

Prologue

Perspective

Supplement to Chapter 11 - How the chimp was created

Rainforest photography - Scenes from the novel

Outtakes, slipups and misadventures