In the new action-packed novel by English writer Keith McCarthy - a continuation of the mesmerizing and creepy bestseller "A Feast of Flesh" - the reader will once again meet pathologist John Eisenmenger, lawyer Elena Fleming and police inspector Beverly Wharton. This time they will have to investigate the causes of one extremely strange death: a young girl, a former employee of a closed medical laboratory, died due to a rapidly developing cancer syndrome. During the investigation, it gradually becomes clear that behind this and several other sudden deaths of doctors and scientists is a powerful pharmaceutical corporation that will stop at nothing to hide the results of a secret biotechnological experiment from the uninitiated. Eisenmenger, Elena and Beverly, determined to go all the way in their search for the truth about the mysterious project, find themselves in mortal danger...