Stephenie Meyer’s ‘The Chemist’ is one of her most recent novels. Alex, or whichever name she holds when you meet her, is a paranoid medic who doubles as an interrogator working with the U.S government. She used to torture terrorists just before she became a target of her bosses. Leaving as a fugitive thereafter has caused her paranoia to an extent of sleeping in a bathtub with a gas mask on. Besides, she sleeps in nondescript rooms replete with lethal chemical weapons just in case a stranger breaks in. She is called the Chemist since her job was initially to squeeze the truth out of the suspects through the use of pain-inducing drug concoctions. Tired of running and worn out from what was left of her life, Alex receives an email requesting her to take on one last job for the government. Despite the paranoia, she takes in the job and discovers that nothing seems as she might have thought before. Corruption rips through the government ranks to the highest offices in the hierarchy.