Solomon's freedom
By: Dennis Meredith
Publisher: Glyphus
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Purlear, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781939118097
Subjects: Animal rights; Fiction; Animal welfare; Human-animal relationships; Chimpanzees; Animaux; Romans, nouvelles; Droits; Protection; Aspect moral; Relations homme-animal; Chimpanzé; Moral and ethical aspects
Description: Solomon is an extraordinary chimpanzee, taught by primatologist Abigail Philips to understand and use language. But her research center is under a financial death sentence from her university. Desperate to save Solomon from what, for him, would be a dismal life in a retirement facility, Philips agrees to give legal control of Solomon to billionaire Walter Drake. He has agreed to house Solomon in comfort and enable her pioneering communication research to continue. But the ailing billionaire has really bought himself a heart! He betrays Philips, planning to "harvest" Solomon's heart to biologically engineer it to replace his own failing heart. The procedure will not only doom Solomon. Its success will also sentence a thousand chimpanzees in sanctuaries to death on the operating table, and lead to industrial breeding of chimpanzees for organ harvesting. Solomon's only hope is flamboyant LA trial lawyer R. William "Bobby" Colter, defender of whoever pays his considerable fee. Hired by eccentric dowager Sarah Huntington, he sets out to win the most difficult case of his career: obtaining legal protection for Solomon. -- provided by Amazon