Review of 'The Fertility Project'

The Fertility Project
Altruism gone wrong.
Researching a cure for infertility. Giving couples hope when they’ve given up on having their own children. How could that possibly go wrong? And yet it does as we find out from the very first paragraph.
Yet another book where the author does a masterful job of creating tension throughout the entire story. He does it in an interesting way, by showing the team of soldiers going in to investigate what went wrong first.
He switches back and forth between following the team in the present as they reveal the horrors of a horribly failed experiment and the past where the researchers made the mistakes that led to disaster.
Even the subtitles of the chapters in the past keep the tension flowing with how long until disaster. Giving even the seemingly innocent events leading up to it more weight.
The tension never abates as we slowly find out what’s happening and a mystery reveals itself. What’s happening to the subjects of the experiment? How can the doctors help them? Why are these strange things occurring?
Pieces of the puzzle fall into place as the reader switches from past to present and the bigger picture comes into focus.
As I read the past and saw the researchers struggle, I found myself wanting things to turn out ok and deluded myself into thinking that they could somehow avert the disaster. But then I realized that in the present the soldiers were already fighting for their lives to salvage what they could out of a horrible situation.
A taut horror story that starts out innocent but turns terrible through mistakes, delusion, and betrayal.
Highly recommended.