The ant farm

Michelle Perry abandoned a good career to follow her beliefs and live a double life: she's the bookkeeper on a ranch, and she's a spy.It's 2040 and the biotech entrepreneur who owns the ranch has bred a small herd of Bison antiquus - extinct for ten thousand years and forerunner of modern plains bison. Michelle, or Shel as she calls herself, is a committed anti-GMO activist from Boston. When Colin Elliot, a shadowy militant and organizer of environmental causes, told her about a new project being developed at the ranch, GMO livestock he said, she jumped at the chance to help him stop it.But nobody on the ranch has any idea what the new project is really about.Over a period of months Shel settles into life on the ranch, all the while snooping, asking questions, and reporting to Colin. She makes friends on the ranch, a close community of honest, hardworking people who care deeply for the land. Shel befriends Matt Parker, construction supervisor for the ranch, an important information source for her. After a few months they begin a passionate love affair. She wants to save the planet, or some small part of it, from ill-conceived science, and she wants a love life. She thinks she can do both.Tension mounts as the start date of the new project approaches. Construction at the research center is behind schedule, still nobody knows what the project is about, and Colin browbeats Shel for information that does not exist. When the project animals arrive the ranch community is stunned: they are not livestock at all, they are the very opposite.In the aftermath of this revelation Shel discovers her opposition to genetic modification of animals, her spying, may be used against her. Even Matt may abandon her if the truth comes out. Can she take that chance? Will she have a choice?

Author: Quincy Bragg

Publisher: Editorial de la Visitacion

Publication Date: December 12, 2019

Number of Pages: 198 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0578597519

ISBN-13: 9780578597515