CROSS, Neil - Natural History - (Excellent Paperback)

Book looks brand new and unread to me - There's a beast in every man.   >>>  How far would you go for your own flesh and blood?   -  Patricks son Charlie has left home in disgrace. His zoologist wife Jane is on a field trip in Zaire and his daughter Jo is engrossed in her studies. So Patrick is left alone to look after the ailing Dvonshire monkey sanctuary that he and Jane took on in a bid to save their marriage. Alone, that is, for the big, panther-like cat that preys around the park, evading capture, lurking in the shadows and in the back of Patricks mind as he tries to uncover the truth behind the murder of their oldest female primate.   -  Patricks fears begin to fade. But then one night something happened that is so shocking, so deplorable, that it rips apart everything he ever held to be true and unleashes a horror he could never have imagined . . .    -   Natural History is a work of exquisite tension. Building towards a climax so devastating it subverts every expectation, it is a brutally compelling investigation into what it is to be human, what it is to experience guilt and what it means to be without.   - 'Neil Cross is an astonishing writer tautly lyrical, and able at a stroke to fill you with cold, dark fear  (Time Out)   -  A masterpiece . . . seductively readable . . . dangerous       * Horror *