Graphene

by Nicole Stuart

A scientific genius escapes from Soviet Russia with his wife. They have nothing, but the help of a stranger starts him on his way to accumulating a fortune, with a steady flow of inventions. He finds graphene, a miracle material that has almost unimaginable qualities, but can only be extracted in minute quantities. Leonid sees the potential of the product for the entire world and, together with Marina, his daughter, he develops a means to produce the material cheaply enough to compete with almost every existing product that it can replace. He fails to reckon with big business, and the predators who are so fixated on their own profit that they will stop at nothing to remove the threat that he and graphene present.
In this fast-paced story of genius versus business, Nicole Stuart explores the problems and challenges encountered by many new products that affect the status quo, including blackmail, deceit and murder!

161 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 9, 2013