The Experiment
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- $2.99
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
Jude Brannock is an investigator for an animal protection organization who’s allowed herself to become romantically involved with a new colleague ten years her junior - a young man named Tim Mains. Jude is having second thoughts about the professional ethics of such a relationship when Tim suddenly vanishes from his undercover position at a laboratory that’s testing an experimental drug on animals.
She sets out to find him in the outwardly bucolic farming town of Half Moon, only to find that he may not be the man she thought he was. Determined to find out if Tim was, in fact, using her all along, Jude digs deeper and begins to see a connection between the drug being tested at the laboratory and cases of unexplained bleeding in some of Half Moon’s population. How the drug escaped the lab will ultimately answer the question of what’s happened to her young trainee. But she will pay a heavy price to find out.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lamont's enticing third mystery featuring animal rights investigator Jude Brannock (after The Trap) finds Jude working for the Kinship, an animal rights organization. Her responsibilities include planning and running covert operations to obtain evidence of violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act, which governs the use of animals in lab experiments. Jude's current target is Vermont's Amaethon Industries, a prior offender aiming to test a new drug on dogs and rodents, to whom she's dispatched a new team member, Tim Mains, to work undercover. She becomes increasingly concerned when she's unable to contact Tim after he sends her an email stating that he's on to something big. Since Jude slept with Tim before he went off on his mission, her concern is also personal. Jude eventually heads to Vermont to look for him, posing as his sister to maintain his cover. Lamont continues to deepen the characterization of her flawed lead in the service of an engrossing plot. Readers will look forward to Jude's further adventures. (BookLife)
