[ Leech ] is The Thing meets The Alienist .
Whichever wins, humanity will lose again..
The two will make war on the battlefield of the body.
A parasite is spreading through the baron\'s castle, already a dark pit of secrets, lies, violence, and fear.
In the frozen north, the Institute\'s body will discover a competitor for its rung at the top of the evolutionary ladder.
The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and protect the species from the apocalyptic horrors their ancestors unleashed.
For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine.
The doctor\'s replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. with worms!--Tamsyn Muir MEET THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN DISEASE In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron\'s doctor has died.
Think Wuthering Heights ...
An Amazon Book of the Month! An October Great Reads Indie Next Pick! A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2022! A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. --Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl A surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes\'s Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy.
I will follow this writer anywhere going forward. . . beautifully written and so strangely humane . . . [ Leech ] is The Thing meets The Alienist
