Аннотация
Lawrence Sanders
Private Pleasures
I am thirty-nine years old and have been married for almost ten years.
My wife, Mabel, and I have one child, a nine-year-old named Chester.
It is not a happy marriage, and Chester is not a happy boy.
For the past seven years I have been employed as a senior chemist at McWhortle Laboratory, Inc. McWhortle's was essentially a research lab, developing new products for a long list of pharmaceutical, industrial, and consumer-oriented companies. We obtained patents on our inventions and then licensed them to our clients for manufacture.
Our specialty was biochemical formulas, including sedatives, stimulants, and synthetic hormones. One research section was devoted solely to the blending of new scents and fragrances for the perfume industry. And we had developed several chemical products for the U.S. armed forces. Those cannot be described here.
After working for almost two years, I had succeeded in developing a n...
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