Peter James: Alchemist (UK 2021)

From the Publisher:
ONE WOMAN'S FIGHT AGAINST THE WORLD'S MOST EVIL COMPANY
Monty Bannerman's father is a leading genetic scientist, and Nobel Prize winner, whose company has just been taken over by what will soon be the world's biggest pharmaceutical giant. He had some misgivings about their company ethics -- but ultimately, he needs their money, and they need his mind.

Then a journalist comes to Monty's door, with a far-fetched story about the pharmaceutical company. She doesn't believe what she's being told for a moment -- but within a few short weeks, events are making the apparently fantastic claims look horrifyingly like the truth.

Behind the respectable facade of the multi-national company which calls itself the 'World's Most Caring Company' lies an outrage against the whole human race...

Peter James: Alchemist. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger... With a new introduction from the author. Orion, ISBN: 9781409181224 (February, 2021), 676 p., £8.99.

Peter James: Alchemist (UK 2005)

From the Publisher:
THAT WHICH DOES NOT SUCCEED IN KILLING ME, MAKES ME STRONGER
At first, Monty Bannerman didn't believe the journalist who came to her door with a far-fetched story on the pharmaceutical giant that had just taken over her Nobel Prize-winning, geneticist father's laboratory. But within a few short weeks events are making his apparently fantastic claims look horrifyingly like the truth. Behind the respectable façade of a multinational which calls itself the 'World's Most Caring Company', lies an outrage against the whole human race.

Peter James: Alchemist. One woman's fight against the world's most evil company. Orion, ISBN: 0752817299 (May, 2005), 688 p., £6.99.

Peter James: Alchemist (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
A riveting, page-turning thriller about the pharmaceutical industry, genetic engineering and one woman's fight for the truth... and... ultimately, her life.

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 bestselling 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.

Peter James: Alchemist. Genetic engineering - the breakthrough to cure the world. Or to crontrol it? Signet, ISBN: 0451179978 (December, 1996), 573 p., £5.99.

Peter James: Alchemist (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
"In one hundred and fifty years the pharmaceutical industry has gone from selling snake oil to controlling the future of the human race" - Dr. Richard Bannerman

Dick Bannerman's daughter Montana has always admired international pharmaceuticals giant Bendix Schere, the very image of a modern, caring company, so when they offer her Nobel Prize-winning father the genetics research facility of his dreams -- and an end to his financial worries -- she is jubilant.

The future also begins to look bright for Monty, who has spent a decade eking out a living as PA to her father, when she meets fellow employee Conor Molloy, a young American patents lawyer. The attraction is mutual but Conor is holding something back from her, some dark secret about the company that, until now, has seemed the answer to Monty's prayers.

Then she receives a visit from a newspaper editor whose pregnant daughter and unborn baby have died horrific deaths. And so, he reveals, have two other expectant mothers and their babies. The link? The fertility drug Maternox, Bendix Schere's biggest-selling product.

Monty, at first reluctant to take such fears seriously, is soon convinced that something is rotten beneath the veneer of "The World's Most Caring Company", for as she starts investigating, people start dying in mysterious accidents. She finds herself plunged into a nightmare as the trail leads to the centre of a conspiracy of beathtaking scale, with grotesque implications for the human race: in global corridors of power, science is being harnessed by the darkest forces in the universe...

Or worse...?

Peter James: Alchemist. Gollancz, ISBN: 0575057262 (January, 1996), 574 p., £15.99.