David Swift is a middle aged, divorced father teaching physics at Columbia University. When the novel opens, he’s called to the hospital to comfort his dying mentor—a renowned scientist suffering from horrifying wounds. Da...

IN A BLAZING FICTION DEBUT, MARK ALPERT TAKES PHYSICS OUT OF THE CLASSROOM AND INTO THE HIGH-STAKES REALM OF ACTION, DANGER, AND A PLOT THAT COULD DOOM THE WORLD. . . . An elderly physicist, one of Einstein's last living colleagues, ...

Jim Pierce hasn't heard from his daughter in years, ever since she rejected his military past and started working as a hacker. But when a Chinese assassin shows up at Jim's lab looking for her, he kn...