The search for the means to control the bodies and minds of our fellow humans has been underway for millennia, from the sleep-inducing honeycombs that felled Pompey's army to the Voodoo potions of Haiti. Now, Frank Swain, the force behind Science Punk, has joined the quest, digging up genuine zombie research:
• secret agents dosing targets with zombie drugs
• parasites that push their hosts to suicide or sex changes
• the elixir of life hidden in an eighteenth-century painting
This mind-bending and entertaining excavation of incredible science is unlike anything you've read before.
