I’m a sucker for science adventure books like this. It’s got an outlandish plot, but is deftly and tightly written so it comes across not as ridiculious but fun. The characters are a bit flimsy, which is true for all science books like this, but one in paticular was very unconvincing, the biologist superstar love interest. Gimmie a break. That said, the characters aren’t the point here, the scientific ideas are, and this book has a good handful of them, and makes for a brisk fun read.