(Local Collection only – Falkirk, Central Scotland)

Alchemist by Peter James.

Originally published in 1996, this paperback edition was published by Penguin. The book is fairly thick at 570 pages long.

Monty Bannerman did not at first believe the newspaper reporter who came to her house with his story. She thought he was just trying to trash the pharmaceutical giant that had recently taken over her geneticist father's laboratory. But within weeks, the seemingly fantastic story he told her about the company's best-selling fertility drug had begun to seem increasingly and horrifyingly plausible. Behind the respectable public face of "The World's Most Caring Company" an outrage was taking place, against the entire human race.

The book is not new, but is still in readable condition - the contents are intact, although the cover is slightly creased.