Book excerpt: SURVIVAL IS AN INSTINCT In a private compound deep in the jungles of the Amazon rain forest, a team of scientists, expert in stem cell engineering, is playing God. With unnerving success. Among them, young biologist Jamie Kendrick is grappling with the implications of the lab's creation—a genetically altered chimpanzee, as intelligent, as soulful, and as sentient as man. It reads. It writes. It reasons. And like man, it hunts. SO IS FEAR When a lead scientist is brutally murdered and the chimps escape, Jamie stumbles upon shocking new discoveries—the unethical origin of the project, where the terrifying experiment is ultimately headed, and its potential to render humanity obsolete. And no one knows what has been unleashed.