Chain Thinking: A Shep Harrington Smalltown Mystery - Couverture rigide

Light, Elliott

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1890862215 ISBN 13 : 9781890862213

Editeur : Bancroft Press, 2003

Synopsis

"Syndey Vail, once a beautiful soap opera star, enters lawyer-cum-detective Shep Harrington's life in a cloud of dust and vanishes just as quickly, leaving behind two very different but strangely connected things: a chimpanzee and a murder.The chimpanzee is the young Kikora, whom Sydney liberated from her confining cage in a testing lab at DMI a mega-medical conglomerate led by the hard-driving Howard Doring, who apparently believes that the human animal has every right to exploit all living things.The murder victim, killed by a blow to the head, is Dr. Celia Stone, the DMI researcher in charge of Kikora.Soon Shep realizes that Kikora, left in his initially unwilling care, is not only stolen property, but the longer he keeps her, the more threatened his own freedom becomes and the more often tough questions race through his head. What makes an animal property? What is the source of human rights? What about an animal whose only difference from humans is 1.6% of DNA, that can empathize and suffer like humans? The questions confuse Shep, who's never had to think hard about them before.And the only answers he seems to find lie in the big brown eyes of a chimp called Kikora."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Elliott Light grew up outside Washington, D.C. in McLean, Virginia before the beltway encircled the capital city, before farms were turned into housing developments, and before open fields became mega-malls. The small town of Lyle is his literary creation and reflects a mixture of true life and fiction drawn from the place he grew up and the places his relatives and ancestors lived. Light attended the University of Virginia, receiving degrees in Electrical Engineering and Law. After stints as an environmental and high tech lawyer, he's now practising as a patent attorney. Light resides in Rockville, Maryland with his wife, Sonya, and their two felines, Sumo and Sasha. This is his second published novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bancroft Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1890862215
• ISBN 13: 9781890862213
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 211
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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