Taussig entered new territory with his third novel, Gorilla Guerrilla, a book that describes the relationship between a boy soldier and a silverback gorilla. In a feature for The Independent on Sunday on 8 December 2008, Taussig wrote about what inspired the novel, a meeting with "a 14-year-old with a pronounced limp and a heavy scar on the top of his head [whose] slight build and baby face belied the horror experienced in his short life. Before he'd even hit puberty he had shot enemy troops, looted villages and brutally murdered civilians – and all against his will."Innocence lost: The child soldiers forced to murder Taussig, Nick. An article Taussig wrote for The Independent on Sunday, 8 December 2008, about child soldiers in Africa Influenced by the work of the contemporary philosopher John N. Gray, in particular Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, the book, amongst other things, "renders the barriers that we erect between our species and others to protect our sense of uniqueness otiose", according to the poet Nicholas Green.Green, Nicholas. In his review of Gorilla Guerrilla on Amazon
