This book has an interesting premise that applies the Da Vinci formula, but instead of a religious quest, this story has a science historian chasing the Einheitliche Feldtheorie, Einstein's unified field theory, the calculations that attach all things. When Einstein's past students start turning up dead at the hands of a mercenary, David Swift ends up at the middle of the quest when the lynchpin of the theory is revealed to him from the deathbed of the last living student. Soon the FBI is chasing him under a cloak of lies created to prejudice the public, and the mercenary Simon is seeking the secret for an unknown employer. This story had promise, and for the most part delivered. The science is not as pervasive as the dust jacket copy may have suggested, and is ultimately not all that important to the plot itself. I'll certainly seek out this author's next book.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Final Theory - Mark Alpert
This book has an interesting premise that applies the Da Vinci formula, but instead of a religious quest, this story has a science historian chasing the Einheitliche Feldtheorie, Einstein's unified field theory, the calculations that attach all things. When Einstein's past students start turning up dead at the hands of a mercenary, David Swift ends up at the middle of the quest when the lynchpin of the theory is revealed to him from the deathbed of the last living student. Soon the FBI is chasing him under a cloak of lies created to prejudice the public, and the mercenary Simon is seeking the secret for an unknown employer. This story had promise, and for the most part delivered. The science is not as pervasive as the dust jacket copy may have suggested, and is ultimately not all that important to the plot itself. I'll certainly seek out this author's next book.
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