The Sun Chemist

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The Sun Chemist

Cover of Penguin paperback edition
Author Lionel Davidson
Country Great Britain
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Jonathan Cape
Publication date 1976
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 284 pp
ISBN ISBN 0140044795

The Sun Chemist is a thriller by Lionel Davidson.

[edit] Plot summary

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.