The Chemical Reaction - Erskine, Fiona
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Dr Jaqueline Silver, professional engineer and explosive expert, needs money to pay for damage to an expensive yacht. She reluctantly accepts a lucrative contract in China. Jaq makes two trips east - the first is an all-expenses-paid official business trip but the joint-venture factory she is sent to visit vanishes overnight. She returns to the UK to take up a job in the northernmost part of Scotland, a windfarm on the Shetland Isles. Concern for a former Teesside University student prompts her to return to China. On the unofficial low-budget visit she sees a different side to the country. A…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Dr Jaqueline Silver, professional engineer and explosive expert, needs money to pay for damage to an expensive yacht. She reluctantly accepts a lucrative contract in China. Jaq makes two trips east - the first is an all-expenses-paid official business trip but the joint-venture factory she is sent to visit vanishes overnight. She returns to the UK to take up a job in the northernmost part of Scotland, a windfarm on the Shetland Isles. Concern for a former Teesside University student prompts her to return to China. On the unofficial low-budget visit she sees a different side to the country. A road trip takes her from Shanghai to Zhengzhou, from the Shaolin Temple - home of Kung Fu - to the rare earth mines of Jiangxi. She outwits corrupt police, duplicitous industrialists, only to come face to face with death near the Banqiao hydroelectric dam.
Autorenporträt
Fiona Erskine is a professional engineer. Based in the north of England but working internationally, she has often been the lone representative of her gender in board meetings, cargo ships and night-time factories. Her fiction offers a fascinating insight into the traditionally male world of heavy industry. Fiona is passionate about music and outdoor swimming, though not generally at the same time.
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'The book keeps the reader guessing throughout...and the fast pace of the thriller makes it difficult to put down.'

The Chemical Engineer