Joe Tesla · Book 3
The Chemistry of Death
- Published
- 1 January 2015
- Pages
- 236
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Chemistry of Death, also published in 2015, runs a much shorter 236 pages, the second Joe Tesla book that year, keeping Rebecca Cantrell's claustrophobic tech-thriller premise -- a hero who cannot leave his tunnel-linked Grand Central apartment -- at the center of the case.
Its place in Joe Tesla
The Chemistry of Death is book 3 in the Joe Tesla series. It follows The Tesla Legacy. It is followed by The Steel Shark. See the full Joe Tesla reading order.
Joe Tesla is a brilliant, agoraphobic tech millionaire who hasn't been outside in over a year, living instead in a specially outfitted apartment built into New York's Grand Central Terminal and navigating the city's underground tunnel network with his guide dog rather than risk the open sky. Rebecca Cantrell's series puts Joe's claustrophobic genius to work solving cases that play out almost entirely underground and indoors -- a natural fit for a protagonist who can't leave, and a clever inversion of the usual…