Final Theory, Mark Alpert
Final Theory, Mark Alpert
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Final Theory

Author: Mark Alpert

Narrator: Adam Grupper

Unabridged: 12 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/03/2008


Synopsis

A science professor on the run must find a lost Einstein theory—and keep it from those who might use it to destroy the universe. Don’t miss the “riveting” (Publishers Weekly) doomsday thriller that Booklist calls “a strikingly sweet-natured yet satisfyingly barbed high-tech, high-stakes adventure” in a starred review.

David Swift is called to the hospital to comfort his dying mentor—a renowned scientist who’s been brutally tortured. David is shocked when the old man dies after wheezing “Einheitlichen Feldtheorie.” The Theory of Everything. It was Albert Einstein’s 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, David’s 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, he’ll team up with his old girlfriend (who happens to be gorgeous, brilliant, and living in Einstein’s old Princeton house), another eccentric disciple of Einstein, and an autistic teenager addicted to video games, in order to work out what Einstein’s theories could possibly be worth to the powers desperate for it—and if the world is even ready for their consequences.

About Mark Alpert

Mark Alpert is a contributing editor at Scientific American and an internationally bestselling author of science thrillers. His novels for adults—Final Theory, The Omega Theory, Extinction, and The Furies—are action-packed page-turners that show the frightening potential of near-future technologies.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cristina on July 02, 2023

Maquiavélico, sería la palabra para describir el libro. La historia nos presenta una reflexión interesante sobre la ciencia , la codicia humana y el fin de la humanidad, donde podemos ver un mundo crudo que nos recuerda la corrupto que está el sistema y como la gente no suele luchar por el bien comú......more

Goodreads review by Rajesh on November 08, 2019

3/5 stars......more

Goodreads review by John on March 24, 2019

On the face of it, this has all the elements of what should have been a thriller tailor-made for me. Unfortunately, the plotting and the telling are a bit Dan Brown so that I came away from the novel sighing about missed opportunities. History records that Einstein spent the last decades of his life......more

Goodreads review by Falcon on November 28, 2015

To me, Mark Alpert was an unknown author, but the title of his book, 'Final Theory', caught my attention. I have great respect for mr. Albert Einstein, so when an author involve him in his history, I simply have to read the book. Many authors writes about the law of physics in their books, but unfort......more

Goodreads review by Susan on February 13, 2019

Be careful what you wish for. David Swift wished for more than just being a writer of scientific theories. He wanted to be a scientist who discovered big things. He wanted to be a physicist like his mentor, an assistant to the great Albert Einstein. When he is called to the side of his mentor, the m......more


Quotes

"Wow! Einstein would have loved this book. It's a great thriller, it has a sure feel for politics, and the science is both fun and solid. He always dreamed that he would discover a unified theory that explained all of nature's forces. Now this book makes the quest come alive." -- Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Einstein

"Final Theory is a stupendous read! Real characters, real science, a deliciously explosive premise, and a breakneck plot combine to make this one of the finest science-based thrillers to appear in a long time. Final Theory rules. If I were Michael Crichton, I'd be packing my bags and heading for a quiet retirement in Tahiti..." -- Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling author of Blasphemy