Three years out of grad school, anthropologist Adrian Thornapple is still stuck in that "temporary" office job. When his former mentor invites him on a rainforest expedition, he says he can't. He has obligations. He has security. He has... a dead neighbor on his doorstep? It seems she's fallen victim to a new and deadly designer drug shipping up from the rainforest. Accused of involvement in her death, Adrian suddenly gets that life is short, that...