I'm more or less through digesting my holiday novel, Silence of the Lambs but next on the late summer pile is Chimera by Stephen Gallagher.
I watched this dark TV series back in the eighties and having enjoyed it then it was no big decision to grab this paperback from a Charity shop shelf in Wales on holiday.
Born of the eco-angst typical of the big-hair Chernobyl decade, which justifiably gave us the brilliant Edge of Darkness nuclear power TV drama with the late Bob Peck [the recent Chernobyl series is a modern example] , Chimera taps into that other bete noire of the green movement at the time, genetic engineering.
Remote labs, dodgy experiments, strong women, shady government units: Chimera had them all on TV and I'm hoping for the same growing sense of secret chaos from the novel, which I assume came first.
Have you seen or read Chimera?
What's on your summer piles?
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