Paul and the others eventually discover that "Charlie" is actually a great white shark given shapeshifting abilities by an experimental compound called "Phoenix." It absorbs the minds and bodies of its victims, and can take their shape, and they're next. Later a security officer confronts the group, offering to help, but before their startled eyes turns into "Charlie," a monstrous creature which wounds Rochelle. Although he promises he'll explain more later, he is missing the next day. Shelley who says the creature is nicknamed "Charlie" and won't harm them again. Although Paul empties an M16 into it, this doesn't seem to harm it. That night, a mysterious, unseen creature attacks them. Some exploring reveals discarded, unfired guns and scattered, empty clothes. Going aboard, they discover the rig is actually a cover for a top secret lab run by a company called Brinkstone. By a seeming stroke of luck, they stumble across a seemingly abandoned oil rig. They had to abandon ship so quickly they lost all of their drugs (except for Alex's personal stash of heroin). Paul Latham, his girlfriend Linda Warner and their four friends Alex, Rochelle, Mark and Chris had been on a drug run from Morocco when their yacht sank. The novel was adapted in a 1995 film called Proteus by Brosnan himself.
The novel was co-written by English author Leroy Kettle, however Kettle went uncredited. Australian author John Brosnan, writing under a pseudonym.
Slimer is a 1983 science-fiction/horror novel by "Harry Adam Knight," a.k.a.
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