The Apothecary has been on my to-read list for a long time, but I never had the chance to read it before now. Along the way, they have to deal with Russian ships, spies, and physicists, and face the final challenge: how to stop the bomb. Jin Lo and the apothecary do not allow Benjamin and Janie to come with them, but they come anyways by using another invisibility potion, and they all head to Nova Zembla to stop the bomb on the boat of Count Vili, a viscount who can stop time, the Kong Olaf. Jin Lo recreates the apothecary, and they prepare for a mission to contain a nuclear bomb test. They rescue another alchemist, Jin Lo, from Mr. Danby, the Latin teacher, retrieves them, but Benjamin and Janie realize that he is not to be trusted and escape from him. When someone kills the gardener, Detective Montclair takes them to Turnbull Hall and questions them. The gardener at the Chelsea Garden explains that the Pharmacopoceia is a book of alchemy and medicines. Shiskin gives a message to the apothecary, who gives them a book called the Pharmacopoceia and disappears. Shiskin, who supposedly works for the Soviet embassy. Benjamin asks Janie to help him spy on Mr. Janie goes to school and meets Benjamin Burrows, the apothecary’s son. When Janie is homesick, the apothecary down the block gives her a cure. Janie Scott is a Californian who moved to London because of political issues during the Cold War.
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