Stephanie Meyer and not a vampire in sight. The Chemist, Book Review

I loved the Twilight Series but today I’m wearing my thriller hat. And so is Meyer. Her latest book, The Chemist, is an intoxicating thriller with a new kind of heroine, a scarily smart scientist / professional torturer, who takes on both a corrupt faction in the CIA (some might say this is a contradiction in terms) and a clandestine homeland security agency with her pharmacological weaponry.

In some very unusual plot developments she picks up some helpers along the way: a rogue special agent, a school teacher, a glamorous escort and a pack of well-trained killer dogs.

Having spent years on the run, years hiding out from those most capable of finding her and killing her, she must come out into the open, go on the offense - with thrilling consequences.

The hunted become the hunters. But who will come out on top?

The Chemist is well written, pacey and extremely well researched, heck, if they had a prize for the most interesting research, then I would nominate this thriller. Sometimes authors don’t make the transition to another genre successfully, but Stephanie Meyers has succeeded, in spades. 

Paperback edition published 2017 by Sphere.