Title: Monkey in the middle
Description: Besmirched by his participation in the botched Operation Slay Dracula—an elaborate mission to assassinate Saddam Hussein—down-and-out Gulf War veteran Dutch Flowers returns to L.A. with a bad case of “compassion fatigue”—and acute paranoia. 

After scraping by for years as a small-time private investigator, he lands a lucrative job with a mysterious genetics research corporation investigating the murder of a lab chimp at their Sapiens Trial Facility, or STF, a sort of hybridized ecosystem—Brave New World meets the Biosphere. The assignment leads him into a labyrinth of dark streets, strange clues, and ominous characters. 

Meanwhile, his marriage is falling apart, and Saddam Hussein has dispatched a cross-dressing assassin nicknamed Mr. Wonderful to put him out of his misery.
Subjects: Attempted assassination, Fiction, Genetic engineering, Persian Gulf War, 1991, Private investigators, Veterans, Persian Gulf War (1991) fast (OCoLC)fst01058380, Fiction, thrillers, general, Private investigators, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, technological
Places: California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.)