

However, the interrogation is interrupted by Daniel’s twin brother, Kevin, a burned CIA agent. She abducts the twenty-nine year-old Daniel and proceeds to use her chemicals on him. Nevertheless, she accepts, hoping it will free her. Carston is part of a plot to spread the biological weapon of mass destruction, superflu TCX-1, on behalf of a drug cartel and a domestic terrorist group. He offers her freedom in exchange for one more job she is critically needed for –to break Daniel Beach, a teacher with a talent for cooking in Washington, D.C. Things seem to change when Alex’s old handler, Lowell Carston, approaches her. The department has been after her for three years during which time she has survived three assassination attempts following the death of her mentor, Dr. At the beginning of the novel, Juliana –who changes names frequently - is on the run.

Fortis used chemical agents to torture those she interrogated for the purpose of extracting critical information.

She earned the name for the work she did for a government department, an agency so secretive that it does not have a name and does not officially exist. When the novel begins, readers are introduced to Dr. The Chemist is a suspense novel by Stephenie Meyer in which heroine Alex attempts to survive her former government department while attempting to get to the bottom of a biological weapons plot. The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Meyer, Stephenie.
