Speed Kills Celerity usually comes in second at UCLA track-the first loser, her coach would say.
But she is encouraged by her father, a botanist, her only parent, and her biggest fan.
Then he dies unexpectedly.
Now she is alone.
While wrapping up his affairs, she learns about his expeditions of discovery to the Dari n jungle and a plant that transforms indigenous tribesmen into prolific hunters .
and extraordinarily fast runners.
She tak.