The Sun Chemist - Hardcover

Davidson, Lionel

3.31

54 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224011162 ISBN 13: 9780224011167

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1976

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A thriller, about a man who is working hard to discover a way of making synthetic oil. Should he succeed the news could overturn the Middle East, and consequently put his life in danger.

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Review:

'An absolute cracker - genuinely witty, thrilling, intelligent... It has everything.' Sunday Telegraph

About the Author:

Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire. He left school early and worked as a reporter before serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. His first novel, The Night of Wenceslas, was published in 1960 to great critical acclaim and drew comparisons to Graham Greene and John le Carr�. It was followed by The Rose of Tibet (1962), A Long Way to Shiloh (1966), The Chelsea Murders (1978) and Kolymsky Heights (1994). He was thrice the recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and, in 2001, was awarded the CWA's Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award. He died in 2009.

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