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Natural Elements.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mason's first novel was published while he was a nineteen-year-old undergraduate at Oxford; this third effort is an immensely readable magnum opus that encompasses the Boer War, the French Resistance, the conflict in Iraq, geriatric psychiatry, high finance, and metallurgy. Sometimes Mason's meticulous research threatens to intrude on the narrative--we learn a little too much about osmium-carbon double bonds, for ...
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