A science professor on the run must find a lost Einstein theoryâand keep it from those who might use it to destroy the universe. Donât miss the ârivetingâ (Publishers Weekly) doomsday thriller that Booklist calls âa strikingly sweet-natured yet satisfyingly barbed high-tech, high-stakes adventureâ in a starred review.
David Swift is called to the hospital to comfort his dying mentorâa renowned scientist whoâs been brutally tortured. David is shocked when the old man dies after wheezing âEinheitlichen Feldtheorie.â The Theory of Everything. It was Albert Einsteinâs lifetime quest to pin down a unified set of equations that incorporated both relativity and quantum mechanics, combining the physics of stars with the laws of atoms. But Einstein never achieved this goal. Or did he?
In the next two hours, Davidâs attacked by a Russian assassin, arrested by the FBI, and nearly killed three times. Someone is clearly trying to get their hands on the supposedly failed theory. But why?
As David runs for his life, heâll team up with his old girlfriend (who happens to be gorgeous, brilliant, and living in Einsteinâs old Princeton house), another eccentric disciple of Einstein, and an autistic teenager addicted to video games, in order to work out what Einsteinâs theories could possibly be worth to the powers desperate for itâand if the world is even ready for their consequences.