Dr Nurrungar
In a decommissioned Cold War listening station in the heart of the Woomera Prohibited Area, a disgraced geneticist is finishing the work his father started the work that cost him his career, his reputation, and any reason to be found.
David Newton has HIV, an unfinished PhD, and seven months of obsessive research pointing to one man: Edmond Le Marc, the scientist who tried to prove where the virus really came from and lost everything for it. To find him, David does something he can't take back. What he finds is worse than he imagined.
Three strangers answered the same ad, a medical trial, twelve weeks, ten thousand dollars, no questions asked. Harrison needed somewhere that wasn't his empty flat. Caleb needed the money for the surgery that would finally match his body to himself. Matty just needed out. None of them read the fine print, because there wasn't any. There was no trial. There was no money. There was only Le Marc, three animals gone extinct long before any of them were born, and a serum built to bring them back one human body at a time.
Dr Nurrungar is a story about what gets done to bodies without consent, and what people do to survive it: grief, hunger, first love, the specific violence of being called something you're not, and the quieter violence of being made into something you never agreed to be. Set against the vast, indifferent beauty of the Woomera desert sixty thousand years older than anything happening inside its fences this is a novel about extinction, ownership, and the cost of listening to the wrong voice for too long.
Some experiments end when the funding runs out.
This one ends when something gets loose.
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