Crick

Cobb, a zoologist himself, sets out to do justice to two lives running in parallel: Francis Crick's science, which after the DNA double helix pivoted into a second serious career trying to crack consciousness, and a personal life defined by persistent infidelity alongside an evidently solid marriage, plus a total contempt for religion paired with real feeling for poetry. The science sections are where the book is most confident and detailed, walking through how a physicist-turned-biologist kept reinventing his field. Some reviewers find the level of research exhausting rather than just exhaustive, bloated with detail beyond what the general reader needs, and note Cobb himself effectively advises skimming the technical stretches, which undercuts the book's accessibility even as it demonstrates its rigor.