Seeds of a new corn plant are stolen from Oxford University's
botany lab, and the professor, Alastair Scott, and his Russian
assistant, Tanya Petrovskaya, are missing.
Alarms ring in London and Washington, where intelligence
officials know that Scott was working on a supergene that could
allow control over the world's entire food supply.
The British government calls in Arthur Hemmings from the Royal
Botanic Gardens at Kew. To his coworkers, Hemmings is just another
researcher in the herbarium, but for many years he has been a
secret service agent, an outwardly rumpled but dashing covert
adventurer.
Officials see a Moscow plot. Has Scott been kidnapped? Is he
dead? Have Scott and Tanya fled to Russia? And why is Oxford's
vice-chancellor withholding vital information?
The intrepid Hemmings follows a series of clues into the
cutthroat world of international patents, where the hunt for
priceless genes is always nasty and often deadly.
In Arthur Hemmings, Pringle has created an original heartbreaker
of a hero, a botanist detective with a dash of James Bond. Facing
murderous threats, Hemmings investigates fearlessly and with
devastating precision. Handsome, witty, an ambitious cook, and a
wine lover, he is irresistible to a much younger American female
researcher.
"Day of the Dandelion" is a seductive modern hybrid of the
thrillers of Graham Greene and the adventure novels of Ian Fleming,
filled with political, scientific, and commercial intrigue, and
laced with miracle plants, deadly toxins, kidnappings, and car
chases. It will keep the reader in suspense and amused from prelude
to postscript.
General
| Imprint: |
Pocketbooks
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2010 |
| First published: |
September 2010 |
| Authors: |
Peter Pringle
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
320 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4516-2396-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Crime & mystery >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-4516-2396-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781451623963 |
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