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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I usually enjoy medical mysteries, if this can be classed as such, but this one just missed the mark. On principle it sounds like an exciting plot, a retired US government employee retires to Thailand, and becomes ensnared in a cutting edge gene editing program. An eccentric scientist named Pierre hopes to eradicate cancer by supplementing a rare protein into test subjects. The results can have deadly consequences. While the writing is competent and the descriptions of Thailand and the culture feel authentic, it also was very choppy, with certain characters entering out of nowhere and exciting just as quickly with little overall importance to the overall story. Some the motivations of the characters were also a little vague for me. I also found myself getting lost in vivid descriptions that seem to be hallucinations, but their placement mixed in with the rest of the text left me wondering what in the world was going on. Story is written as a trilogy and may indeed get better as the story continues. I will probably sit the sequels out myself. Thank you to Netgalley for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review. ( ) The story of a peaceful retirement run amok, this novel recounts the story of Benton Sims, former intelligence officer and grieving widower, who becomes embroiled in a circle of people in Thailand who are carrying out illegal drug trials. The narrative moves both back and forth in time, and between the lives of Ben, his Virginia neighbors, and Pierre, who is the drug trial kingpin. The author's background as professor and scientist is obvious from the extensive (and for this reader excessive) elaborations of genetics and botany. The description of a skeletal museum of wartime victims is ghoulish, as is the portrayal of the deformities and deaths that result from the medical trials. The distinction between reality and hallucination is often very fuzzy, and serves to demonstrate the confusion and moral dilemmas faced by the main character.
Mani tells his story in taut, highly descriptive prose, capturing his Thai setting’s cornucopia of sights and tastes … fans of more literary-tinged genre offerings like those of Chris Abani or John le Carré will enjoy Benton’s strange—even phantasmagoric—adventures in Thailand. … enjoyable thriller set in the shadowy world of medical experimentation.” Prémios
Toxic Spirits is a highly atmospheric thriller set in Thailand, a playground for colorful expats, beautiful women and limitless skullduggery. Narrated with insightful meditations on nature and biodiversity, interspersed with macabre violence and dark hilarity, the novel is also a brilliant, genetics- and AI-inspired take on multiculturalism and personal identity.Benton, a widowed African-American intelligence analyst from Washington D.C., retires to Thailand. At an expat bar, he is captivated by Siri, a beautiful tribal singer. When Siri disappears, he discovers that she had been speaking out about the side-effects from drug trials conducted on her hill-tribe. Benton's investigations draw him uncomfortably close to Pierre, the seriously disturbed Indo-Cambodian doctor running the trials. Becoming an unwilling guinea-pig in the trials, Benton is transformed by the genetically-engineered drugs and falls in love with Mimi, a stunning and gifted young Thai-Australian. As the genetic manipulations spiral out of control and spread to the botanical treasures of Thailand's Golden Triangle, the forces of tribal healing, high-tech medicine, and love battle to determine who will survive. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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