Review of "Monkey in the Middle" by Josh Pryor

Genetic engineering is the subject, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder are the causes in this plot. This is an engrossing tale that is filed with humor and love. The scene is the streets located in a seedy section of Los Angeles. We meet Dutch Flowers who has come home from the Gulf War and sets up a business doing rival investigating work. Dutch is hired on to investigate the murder of a prize chimp that lived at the "Sapiens Trial Faculty." The faculty is place where they are studying a group of chimps that have been isolated. They live in an area that is built like a covered biosphere. Shockingly, one of the chimps has been murdered. Maybe by another chimp. Flower's is hired to investigate with the understanding that no humans are allowed into the chimp enclosure.

There are a lot of twists and turns to this plot that are fun to encounter and I would not like to spoil the surprises for you. Needless to say this is an unusual romp through a labyrinth of genetic engineering.