Investigative journalist Mark Jenner has travelled the world reporting from warzones, uncovering atrocities, and tracking violent civil unrest in his lifelong quest for the truth. Now, the intrepid reporter finds himself journeying to a lab deep in the jungle, where the military has just moved in to curtail a mad scientist's experiments. If the rumours are to be believed, Dr Conrad Faulkner has been playing God: performing horrifying genetic experiments not only on the jungle’s wildlife, but on its most vulnerable native tribes. Now, following the man's arrest, it's down to ordinary people to decide whether the subjects of those experiments will live or die. The pressure Mark will face to spin the story in a way that benefits both of his brothers, a politician and a priest, is to be expected — the deep bond he forms with one of the experimental subjects is not.