MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA (PB)

Dr Ha Nguyen is invited to travel to the Con Dao Archipelago to investigate a highly intelligent, dangerous octopus species. A transnational tech corporation, best known for its work in artificial intelligence, has purchased the islands, evacuated their population and sealed the archipelago off so that Nguyen can focus on her research. But the stakes are high: the octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extra-human intelligence and there are vast fortunes to be made. No one has yet asked the octopuses what they think – or considered what they might do.