Global Tech believes it has solved world hunger.
Using revolutionary genetic engineering, the powerful Big Ag corporation has created livestock the size of elephants—cattle, pigs, and sheep engineered to feed the planet and make billions in the process. To secure political support, Global Tech hosts an exclusive showcase at its rural Pennsylvania headquarters, inviting senators, congressmen, and investors to witness the future of agriculture.
But not everyone believes Global Tech should control the food supply. When eco-terrorists attack the facility, their sabotage triggers a catastrophic accident inside the research labs. What they release isn’t just dangerous—it’s monstrous. From the earliest days of Global Tech’s experiments come the forgotten genetically altered skin mites that grow, multiply, and swarm with horrifying speed.
Within minutes, the party becomes a battlefield. Scientists, Secret Service agents, and trapped guests must fight their way through a nightmare of crawling flesh-eating parasites spreading through the complex. And the deeper they push into the facility, the more terrifying the truth becomes.
For the most part, this was an immensely likable and enjoyable story. The central setup comes about in a rather routine manner, involving the animal rights group looking to infiltrate the facility carrying out secretive testing and getting in over their head when they realize the giant creatures the team was studying have been released and are now loose, hunting and killing others, but it's still rather intriguing to let it play out. The more intensive descriptions involving the bio-technology used to create the creatures and how they're alive helps to redeem this somewhat by doing a lot more in-depth on how the whole process works, what the intent behind it was, and what the eventual outcome has turned into that helps to provide more of a buffer against this style of overdone setup regardless of how intriguing it is.
When it gets to the second half, and the group is forced to get out of the facility from the skin mites that can grow to the size of rats and dogs, this picks up incredibly well. The intensity regarding how the group is in unfamiliar waters trying to navigate through the corridors and labs of the facility while looking to stay away from the massive creatures makes for a solid time bringing about plenty of great suspense trying to get out alive, while the use of the specific creatures adds a lot to the book by making an already creepy creature that much more unnerving. There's a gruesomeness to the attacks and encounters here that makes the creatures all the more imposing and threatening beyond the size, and it all helps to make this a bit more enjoyable, except for the lone problem with the setup being a bit too familiar.
4.5/5
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