Homunculus (Macmillan New Writing)
Publisher: Macmillan UK
Published: October 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780230000490
Subjects: Adventure / thriller; General; Fiction / General; Fiction; Fiction - General
Description: "In a remote Catholic mission station in war-torn Sierra-Leone, a renegade Irish alchemist, Father Jack, has succeeded in creating a small legion of grotesque bio-robots. Anxious to be rid of his creations before problems arise, he tries to sell his homunculi, but he fails, and chaos ensues in this dark, bizarre, and highly readable novel from an award-winning journalist"--Page [4] fo cover.