![]() ![]() ![]() Benjamin and Jane are of course in the thick of spy/ counterspy machinations, and a trip to the test site as stowaways nearly costs them their lives. Burrows and his associates are equally determined to use their arcane knowledge to contain the fallout from a hydrogen bomb that's scheduled to be tested in the Russian outpost Nova Zembla. Russian scientists, aided by a spy ring that includes the teens' teacher, are after the book and its users Mr. But when he discovers that his father is the keeper of the Pharmacopoeia, a book of near-magical instructions and concoctions passed down through generations, his days take on sudden, perilous interest. Benjamin has to date resisted his father's attempts to draw him into the family business, feeling that life as a druggist is a prospect too boring to entertain. A quotidian trip to the local apothecary for hot water bottles and candy bars puts Jane on the radar of the apothecary's son, Benjamin Burrows, who is also a classmate in her new school. Jane Scott, now well into her seventies, recalls her week of life-threatening adventure back in 1952, when she and her parents, television writers accused of Communist sympathies during the Red Scare, moved from California to London to continue their careers. ![]()
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