Sheffield is being steered towards an ecological disaster by an unscrupulous city council leader who is chasing one last big backhander before he gives up power, putting thousands of lives at risk.
Cranford Hardstaff is out to deceive the council into approval for a huge housing development on a site he knows to be the historic dumping ground for dangerous chemical waste.
With time running out to avert a potential catastrophe, fate takes a hand.
An old lady is injured by a falling branch from a tree during a storm. It is the unlikely spark for a chain of coincidental events which sets one man on the path to save the city.
Catalyst is a fast-paced thriller with many twists but also a warm and funny cross-genre novel which celebrates the power of the human spirit to take on those who would put profit ahead of the planet – and topple them.
Genre: Mystery
Cranford Hardstaff is out to deceive the council into approval for a huge housing development on a site he knows to be the historic dumping ground for dangerous chemical waste.
With time running out to avert a potential catastrophe, fate takes a hand.
An old lady is injured by a falling branch from a tree during a storm. It is the unlikely spark for a chain of coincidental events which sets one man on the path to save the city.
Catalyst is a fast-paced thriller with many twists but also a warm and funny cross-genre novel which celebrates the power of the human spirit to take on those who would put profit ahead of the planet – and topple them.
Genre: Mystery
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