"All the while the public want harmless products on their shelves, it will go on and there is nothing you can do about it." Chawbury is a pleasant English market town; medieval cathedral, seventeenth and eighteenth century town houses surrounded by satellite estates, and to the east, a gleaming, ultra-modern biotech laboratory. But the beauty of Chawbury was of little consequence to C16, a synthetic hominid designed for experimentation. Death by slow torture seemed to be her inevitable fate... That is until schoolboy Michael Gowland gets a summer job in the animal pens. Science Fiction for Young Adults