Lethal Dose: 50% — a source of remedial education for people who don’t know:
- Why chemists wash their hands before they use the toilet.
- Why Breaking and Entering should be a required collegiate course.
- Why you should keep your pecker out of your paycheck.
Preston Charles, chemist, invents the big one — a means to wring more energy out of dwindling fuel resources. He tells his boss, who sent word up the corporate line until the news reaches the key individual who can order up a hit man. Now Preston’s dodging bullets, when all he wanted was his own parking space and a villa next to a nude beach.
He’s getting lots of attention. His supervisor’s wife yearns for him, and his girlfriend doesn’t. His home insurer demands to know why he blew up his own house. Homeland Security wants him to invent the impossible — a chemical formula that will prevent fuel from exploding.
The hit man is pissed because he can’t kill Preston until he extracts the formula from him. Homeland Security won’t protect him, and a foreign power wishes to bury the formula beside its inventor. His boss reassigns him to invent products from horse urine.
All the fun things come together in one night: betrayal, kidnapping, and a mismatched shoot-out. The powers of money and lust are unmistakable in this high-stakes game of uncovering hidden allies and enemies as Preston dodges corporate intrigue, terrorist strikes and assassination.
