Publisher's Synopsis
The narrator is a master of explosives, always learning, a pagan chemist, entertaining new beliefs, a sophisticated survivor aware of the irony of his exist-ence, balancing his contradictions: focused but impulsive, daring and cautious, and determined to redirect humanity. Free because he also fits a socio-political use, privileged yet poor by choice, he attacks a predatory world with violence, to save the future and his family, if they don't damn him first. A hero to himself, he plays with fire, before more venomous paths reveal themselves.
