Bryan Grieg Fry is VENOM DOC

(Hachette) and never far from danger: “... It was in the lush Malaysian rainforest of the Cameroon Highlands that we finally came across the blue, long-glanded coral snake. We discovered it in the most incongruent manner: by zipping around a golf course in the early morning following a drenching storm the night before. This snake looked like no other. It was striped, with deep ocean blue intervening between electric blue and artery red. It was living colour that also moved like electricity. My experience counted for naught as this snake moved like it was a venom-tipped garden hose writhing from a strong jet of water.

In the thick leaf litter this animal reigned supreme. If you were a snake of any kind, you were food. It moved like it was a sea snake under water. It was at the femme fatale level of deadly beautiful.”