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Synopsis
A quality thriller by an American short-story writer whose work has been compared to Updike and Cheever in the New York Times – A gripping suspense story featuring a former Chicago woman cop trying to leave her past, whose husband disappears into thin air, and a 14-year-old boy who finds a mutilated corpse in snowy woodlands.
Joel Baker, a wealthy importer with an interest in computers, leaves his home in the suburbs of Washington DC one evening to pick up some groceries. He never returns. Now his wife Kate, a social worker trying to distance herself from a former life as a Chicago cop, has to make sense of his disappearance, and of the unsettling discoveries the police keep making in their investigation. 14-year-old Evan finds a mutilated corpse in the woods but keeps it quiet. Finally he contacts Kate and tells her. The corpse is linked to Joel’s business and for the first time in her life Kate finds herself on the wrong side of the law she has sworn to enforce. Together with Evan, and evading the police, she embarks on an increasingly desperate search for the man she thought she knew as her husband which takes her from suburban Maryland to the deeps woods of rural Pennsylvania; from the comfortable world of upper middle class to the renegade subculture of ‘smart drugs’ and internet-assisted crime. Bad Chemistry is a thriller that is as much about marriage and deception as it is about the deadly interaction of illegal drugs and computer technology.
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About the Author
Gary Krist is 40 years old and the author of the two short-story collections, The Garden State (winner of the American Sue Kaufmann best fiction prize) and Done by Bone, named New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Bad Chemistry is his first novel. He has contributed to the New York Times, The Washington Post, the New Republic and GQ.
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Take a secret drug development company, add a lust for power, a smattering of murder and a race against time. Bring to the boil to create - Bad Chemistry. '
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- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1857027655
- ISBN 13 9781857027655
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages368
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