Description
When a young woman is rushed to a Sydney hospital suffering from a snakebite, she's lucky to be treated by Annika Niebuhr, a doctor whose fascination with serpents began with the Norse myths of her Danish childhood. Annika recognises the bite of a taipan - the world's most poisonous snake, but not one native to Sydney - and realises it can only have been planted.
Inadvertently, or so she believes. Annika is drawn into an investigation that becomes increasingly outlandish. A miraculous recovery, a clairvoyant schizophrenic, the apparent suicide of a close friend - none makes sense to a rational medic. Yet for all her scepticism. Annika begins to realise that she must use her instincts and imagination if she's to survive.
