The Catalyst  (English, Paperback, Morrison Boyd)

The Catalyst, formerly published as The Adamas Blueprint, is an action novel penned by the author of The Noah's Ark Quest, Boyd Morrison. Here is a protagonist who does not know why someone is trying to kill him and is clueless about whom to trust and whom not to.

Summary of the Book

Kevin is a Ph.D. student in chemistry who is in utter shock after coming to know that his advisor, Michael Ward, has passed away in a fire accident. He gets a cryptic email from Ward, sent by him just before his death. It says that he was being chased by someone who was hellbent on getting hold of the notebook with the results of a seemingly failed experiment: an experiment that Kevin and Ward had together worked  on. But, even before Kevin could make any sense of the message, Ward's attackers are behind him. While Kevin is on the escape, he gets his girlfriend Erica Jensen, a medical student, involved unknowingly. Their flight together leads them to realise that Kevin had been a part of one of the most astonishing discoveries of the centuries without even being aware of it - a chemical process called Adamas worth billions of dollars. Will Kevin and Erica be able to show to the world how Adamas actually works?

About Boyd Morrison

Boyd Morrison is an author, engineer, and actor. He began his engineering career working on NASA's space station project at Johnson Space Center, where he got to fly on the Vomit Comet, the plane used to train astronauts for zero gravity. He obtained a Ph.D. in engineering from Virginia Tech and made use of his training to develop 11 US patents at Thomson/RCA. Morrison then managed a video game testing group in Microsoft's Xbox division before he turned a full-time writer. He also acts in movies, stage plays and commercials.