The Tank: A Story of Intelligent Deign

Nothing but trouble awaits Philip Anders, a brilliant microbiologist, when he teams up with a pair of devious, sometimes crooked colleagues. They promise techniques and equipment that can deliver answers to the scientist’s most elusive puzzle. Philip, who finally succumbs to temptation, agrees to a partnership. In this Faustian chronicle of a scientist’s long and frustrating search into the hidden workings of human cells carries a terrible price. Philip’s partnership with Christina Lourdes and Slade Markham leads him to encounters with a Latin plantation owner and his huge menacing brother, Fascinating descriptions show how the trio conducts the tedious research in their efforts to create biologically living robots. The creatures supposedly will deliver to the well-meaning plantation owner an easier life for his workers. The reader will find out there are many hazards along the way.