La Causa
(Sims: Book One)
by F. Paul Wilson

Description:

Sims is a brand new three or four book series of novellas.

Sims takes place in a world exactly like our own, except that the science is perhaps twenty-five years ahead of what we presently know. A world in which most simple manual labor is done by sims genetically-altered chimps who occupy a gray-zone between simian and human. The Microsoft of this brave new world is SimGen, which owns the patent on the sim genome and leases the creatures worldwide.

Patrick Sullivan, a labor relations attorney of questionable ethics, is living the good life until he decides, on a whim, to see if he can make a few bucks by unionizing a group of sims. In so doing he sets in motion huge forces that will turn his world upside down. As everything he believes is revealed to be a lie, Patrick becomes a player in a violent, deadly unseen war to peel away the layers of conspiracy that shroud the monstrous secret of the sims, a secret SimGen and the power behind it will do anything to protect