Paul Symon is an environmentalist who just wants to make the world a better place, but he's overwhelmed by too much disjointed information, too much public apathy, too much self-serving talk and not enough action. Not to mention the opposition of greedy despoiler Jerry Landis, a Bay Area billionaire venture capitalist who is afflicted with Werner's Sydrome, a rare disease that accelerates the aging process. Landis cares about only two things: making even more money, and finding a way to arrest his medical condition. He'll go to any lengths to do either.

That brings Jerry Landis and his huge fortune to the wild frontier of biotechnology, where his people are illegally experimenting with cross-species organ transplantation in California while breeding genetically altered primates at a secret site in the piney woods of south central Mississippi. Paul takes it upon himself to bring this clandestine research to a halt, while simultaneously dealing with pregnant wife and preparing for their wedding.

Meanwhile, there's an eco-terrorist on the loose, bent on teaching hard lessons to people who are under the impression that the Earth and its creatures are theirs to destroy. These forces, together with 50,000 extra-large chacma baboons, collide in an explosion of laughter, wonder and, according to some, humor of the blackest kind.

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