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Final theory : a novel / Mark Alpert.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781416572879 (hc)
- ISBN: 9781416590019 :
- ISBN: 1416572872
- ISBN: 9781416590019
- ISBN: 9781416572879 :
- ISBN: 1416572872 (hc)
- ISBN: 9781439109410 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1416590013
- Physical Description: 359 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster : 2009, 2008.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "A Touchstone Book."
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- Subject:
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 > Influence > Fiction.
Physics teachers > Fiction.
Unified field theories > Fiction. - Genre:
- Suspense fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Vanderhoof Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderhoof Public Library | AF ALP (Text) | 35193000057788 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
More information
- Baker & Taylor
David Swift, a professor at Columbia University, is on the run for his life from the FBI and a ruthless mercenary as he frantically tries to work out an unpublished Einstein theory. - Baker & Taylor
When his physicist mentor is brutally murdered for his possible knowledge about Einstein's Unified Theory, Columbia University professor David Swift and his Princeton scientist girlfriend are swept up by a violent race between the FBI and a ruthless mercenary for control of the information and its staggering potential. 150,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
When his physicist mentor is murdered for his possible knowledge about Einstein's Unified Theory, Columbia University professor David Swift is swept up by a violent struggle for control of the information and its staggering potential. - Blackwell North Amer
Columbia University professor David Swift is called to the hospital to comfort his mentor, a physicist who's been brutally attacked. With his last words, the dying man gives his former pupil a seemingly random string of numbers that could hold the key to Einstein's last and greatest secret.
Einheitliche Feldtheorie. The Theory of Everything. Einstein's proposed Unified Theory - a set of equations that could explain all the forces of nature - would have revolutionized our understanding of the universe. But Einstein never discovered it. Or did he?
Within hours, David is arrested by the FBI and taken to a secret interrogation center. But the FBI isn't the only faction pursuing Einstein's long-hidden theory. A Russian mercenary wants to force David to talk - and he will do whatever it takes.
On the run for his life, David teams up with an old girlfriend, a brilliant Princeton scientist, and frantically tries to piece together Einstein's final theory to reveal its staggering consequences. - Simon and Schuster
A Spellbinding Thriller about a Science History
Professor on the Run for his Life and an Unpublished Einstein
Theory that Could Change the WorldDebut 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 brilliant Princeton scientist, David frantically works out Einstein's final theory to reveal the staggering scope of its consequences.
With publishers around the world snapping up rights in twenty-two countries, the book has already become a global phenomenon, and the dynamic characters and gripping plot will keep readers compulsively turning the pages until the very end.