{"product_id":"9780957568990","title":"Toxic","description":"On the morning of December 4th 1984, municipal workers in Bhopal, India, were clearing some 4,000 dead bodies and thousands of animal carcasses from the streets following the world's worst industrial accident.\u003cbr\u003eThe toxic cloud that caused the massive death toll formed when water poured into a tank of improperly stored methyl isocyanate (MIC).\u003cbr\u003eIt doesn't look dangerous. And you can't smell it until it's too late.\u003cbr\u003eYou can only hope it's not sitting around anywhere near you . . .\u003cp\u003eIn the Scottish city of Dundee, life and all its complications are proceeding much the same as usual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recklessly brilliant DI Donna Davenport, struggling to hide her bi-polarity from police colleagues and get over the break-up with her partner Libby, has been suspended from duty for a fiery and inappropriate outburst to the press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDI Evanton, an old-fashioned, hard-living misogynistic copper has been newly demoted for thumping a suspect, and transferred to Dundee with a final warning ringing in his ears and a reputation that precedes him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd in the peaceful, rolling farmland of Fife a deadly store of MIC, the toxin that devastated Bhopal, is being illegally stored by a criminal gang smuggling the valuable substance necessary for making cheap pesticides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn anonymous tip-off starts a desperate search for the MIC that is complicated by the uneasy partnership between Davenport and Evanton and their growing mistrust of each others actions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompelling and authentic, Toxic is a tense and fast paced crime thriller.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ThunderPoint Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47028969079024,"sku":"9780957568990","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780957568990_p0.jpg?v=1763870039","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780957568990","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}