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Cold Catalyst is a literary suspense novel set against the winter-bound campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where a containment failure in a biochemistry lab exposes more than a scientific anomaly. When a researcher vanishes during a severe storm and thermal readings suggest heat rising from beneath a sealed laboratory floor, Professor Garth Myers and a small circle of colleagues are drawn into an investigation that reaches far below campus infrastructure-and far deeper into institutional memory. As storm conditions lock down the city, administrators move quickly to control the narrative. Missing schematics, disabled safety monitors, and long-decommissioned sub-basements hint at a buried system still active beneath the university's foundations. What begins as a procedural emergency evolves into a study of pressure: scientific, political, and psychological. Blending atmospheric tension with intellectual inquiry, Cold Catalyst explores how complex systems adapt under scrutiny-and how danger often hides behind the appearance of stability. As evidence shifts and loyalties fracture, Garth must confront a force that behaves less like sabotage and more like a reaction long set in motion. Some catalysts accelerate change. Others expose what has been waiting all along. At once a campus thriller and a meditation on accountability, memory, and structural failure, Cold Catalyst continues the Garth Myers Mystery series with a story where the greatest threat is not chaos, but control.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Doyle, Frank
- ISBN: 9798993691183
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.63
- Number Of Pages: 302
- Publication Year: 2026
Language:
English