{"product_id":"cold-catalyst-a-garth-myers-mystery-paperback","title":"Cold Catalyst: A Garth Myers Mystery - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Beckman\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eFrank Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCold 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlending 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 302\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46363658125447,"sku":"9798993691183","price":33.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/U9471sARrP9798993691183.webp?v=1793299862","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/cold-catalyst-a-garth-myers-mystery-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}