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''Beyond question the book of the year.'' Spectator

Chaim Weizmann was a great man, one of the founders of modern Israel. He was also a chemist of international repute. His work in the thirties led him to a cheap way of synthesising oil. But politics took over and it seemed Weizmann had died without passing on his revolutionary knowledge.

In the oil-starved seventies, it falls to Igor Druyanov to reconstruct that magic formula. And the chase is on, for the news will overturn the Middle East . . .

Tense, intelligent and stylish, The Sun Chemist is gripping spy thriller from a true master of the genre.

The Sun Chemist

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 7/17/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780571242979, 978-0571242979
      ISBN10: 0571242979

      Description

      ''Beyond question the book of the year.'' Spectator

      Chaim Weizmann was a great man, one of the founders of modern Israel. He was also a chemist of international repute. His work in the thirties led him to a cheap way of synthesising oil. But politics took over and it seemed Weizmann had died without passing on his revolutionary knowledge.

      In the oil-starved seventies, it falls to Igor Druyanov to reconstruct that magic formula. And the chase is on, for the news will overturn the Middle East . . .

      Tense, intelligent and stylish, The Sun Chemist is gripping spy thriller from a true master of the genre.

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