Marshmallows Are Their Favorite: Undercover at a Primate Lab

One investigator. Four months undercover. Getting in was the easy part.

To her coworkers, Lindsay is an inexperienced new technician. To her friends and family, she’s a travel photographer. In reality, she’s a spy. The lab has another word for her.

Trusted with the keys and armed with covert cameras, she steps into a world the public isn’t meant to see. Metal cages line the cinderblock walls, and the monkeys study her through the bars as intently as she studies them. Everyone else acts like it’s just another Tuesday.

Getting caught isn’t the only danger. The monkeys emerge as individuals, coworkers become friends, and a hallway flirtation turns into something she can’t report—all under the shadow of an investigation only she knows exists. The deeper she goes, the more difficult it becomes to separate the people she’s deceiving from the system she came to expose.

Marshmallows Are Their Favorite is a suspenseful, unexpectedly funny, and intimate true story about the animals and people inside a government-funded primate lab, the adrenaline of going undercover, and the cost of living a lie long enough to tell the truth.
