Tapeworm Slim

At the same time the National Health Service needs to make billions in efficiency savings, half the population of Great Britain are either overweight or clinically obese. As nobody wants to give up their lifestyle of convenience, and capitalism continues to profit from the saturated fats of processed food, something has to give. Senior Consultant of Bariatrics, Doctor Sahara Scarseed, believes she has patented a product which will save the NHS and revolutionize the face of dieting forever. Yet the Queen Victoria Hospital have dismissed her on grounds of malpractice, due to the non-consensual tests she has performed on her patients, and have labelled her "arrogant, dangerous and incompetent". Once the brilliantly gifted but psychologically unstable Sahara manages to acquire financial backing, from the mysterious billionaire owner of the insidious Vicovex Corporation, she is ready for the clinical trials of her new patent. That was a month ago and there is now silence from the laboratory that both Scarseed and her human test subjects are locked inside. Just what has happened to everyone inside the monolithic medical research building called The Facility? And how far has Scarseed has gone in order to get her new medication to market? Dark characters, narcissism, greed, benevolence, vengeance, saddening loss, forbidden love and the visionary brilliance of a psychotic doctor. This story chronicles the pioneering research into a revolutionary new medication… Tapeworm Slim.

About the Author

Chris Lowe is an impassioned writer from the West Midlands in England. He has been writing for thirty years and has previously had work published in small literary magazines. His first full book, Bezmel's Vespiary, was published in 2014. It has been well received and he has been working ever since on his sophomore effort, Tapeworm Slim, and this was released in 2016.

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