At Connecticut's most prestigious medical research institute, something is very wrong. It's the 1960s and America is in ferment, but at the Hug, the daily business of research continues, and the hierarchies of power remain undisturbed. Until the body of a woman is found in one of the animal research laboratories one morning. And then another... The bestselling author of The Thorn Birds and Angel Puss delivers an edge-of-the-seat thriller with many a twist and turn as the lives - and pasts - of those in this little university town unravel.