Final Theory

✍ Scribed by Alpert, Mark

• Book ID: 109664186
• Publisher: Touchstone
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 300 KB
• Series: David Swift 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781416573098

✦ Synopsis

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A Spellbinding Thriller about a Science History

Professor on the Run for his Life and an Unpublished Einstein

Theory that Could Change the World

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Debut novelist Mark Alpert brings one of the most explosive books of 2008, seamlessly weaving current issues of science, history, and politics with white-knuckle chases.

David Swift, a professor at Columbia University, is called to the hospital to comfort his mentor, a physicist who's been brutally tortured. Before dying, the old man wheezes "Einheitliche Feldtheorie." The Theory of Everything. The Destroyer of Worlds. Could this be Einstein's proposed Unified Theory--a set of equations that combines the physics of galaxies with the laws of atoms? Einstein never succeeded in discovering it. Or did he? Within hours of hearing his mentor's last words, David is running for his life. The FBI and a ruthless mercenary are vying to get their hands on the long-hidden theory. Teaming up with his old girlfriend, a...