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The Sun Chemist

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The Sun Chemist
First edition
AuthorLionel Davidson
LanguageEnglish
PublisherJonathan Cape
Publication date
1976
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages284 pp
ISBN0-14-004479-5
OCLC16425089

The Sun Chemist is a thriller by Lionel Davidson.

Plot summary

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Letters in the archive correspondence of Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel, hint that, in his profession as a distinguished organic chemist, Weizmann had stumbled on a method for the cheap synthesis of petroleum. Now, decades later, a world buffeted by oil shocks and perpetually rising prices would welcome such a chemical miracle. But Weizmann's laboratory notebooks must be found first, and an unseen and powerful enemy will stop at nothing to keep them hidden.