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The Chemical Reaction
Paperback
Series: Jaq Silver Thrillers, Book 2
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781918071054
Publisher: Snickered Mole
Published: Jul 11 2025
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Dr Jaqueline Silver, professional engineer and explosive expert, needs money to pay for damage to an expensive yacht. She reluctantly accepts a lucrative contract in China. Jaq makes two trips east - the first is an all-expenses-paid official business trip but the joint-venture factory she is sent to visit vanishes overnight. She returns to the UK to take up a job in the northernmost part of Scotland, a windfarm on the Shetland Isles. Concern for a former Teesside University student prompts her to return to China. On the unofficial low-budget visit she sees a different side to the country. A road trip takes her from Shanghai to Zhengzhou, from the Shaolin Temple - home of Kung Fu - to the rare earth mines of Jiangxi. She outwits corrupt police, duplicitous industrialists, only to come face to face with death near the Banqiao hydroelectric dam.
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