A science professor on the run must find a lost Einstein theoryāand keep it from those who might use it to destroy the universe. Donāt miss the ārivetingā (Publishers Weekly) doomsday thriller that Booklist calls āa strikingly sweet-natured yet satisfyingly barbed high-tech, high-stakes adventureā in a starred review.
David Swift is called to the hospital to comfort his dying mentorāa renowned scientist whoās been brutally tortured. David is shocked when the old man dies after wheezing āEinheitlichen Feldtheorie.ā The Theory of Everything. It was Albert Einsteinās 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, Davidās 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, heāll team up with his old girlfriend (who happens to be gorgeous, brilliant, and living in Einsteinās old Princeton house), another eccentric disciple of Einstein, and an autistic teenager addicted to video games, in order to work out what Einsteinās theories could possibly be worth to the powers desperate for itāand if the world is even ready for their consequences.