The catalyst
(Book)

"Previously published as The Adamas blueprint."

Includes an excerpt from The vault.

When Kevin, a Ph.D. student in chemistry, gets word that his graduate advisor, Michael Ward has died in a fire, Kevin knows it was no accident. Just before Ward's death, Kevin received a cryptic message warning him that someone is after the results of a supposedly failed experiment they had worked on together -- and will stop at nothing to get it. But Ward's attackers are already after Kevin and his girlfriend, Erica. As they run for their lives, Kevin and Erica discover that he unknowingly participated in one of the most important discoveries of the century, a chemical process called Adamas worth billions of dollars. Now, the two must stay alive long enough to prove to the world that Adamas actually works before it falls into the wrong hands.