Storm Cloud on Deka

"Storm Cloud on Deka" by E. E. Smith, is a science fiction tale set in a future where medicine and dangerous substances collide. It centers on Tellurian Pharmaceuticals and Dr. Fairchild, a scientist trying to develop a new medicinal plant who soon discovers a scheme to produce a powerful, addictive drug called thionite. Two people, Robert Ryder and Jacqueline Comstock, find themselves caught in the chaos and cover-ups, while a Vortex Blaster known as Storm Cloud battles unstable atomic energies. They all struggle with difficult decisions and the question of right and wrong rises to the surface as they try to expose the truth hiding in a mess of scientific improvements gone wrong.