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From Publishers Weekly
Einsteins Unified Field Theory is the MacGuffin in this competent debut by Clive Cussler collaborator Dirgo (Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed). The premise is that Einstein actually came up with the theory in August 1945, but hid his notes and formulae on his boat Windforce after Hiroshima. Now, nearly 40 years after Einsteins death and the loss of his boat at sea, a belligerent China plans to use a weapon based on the UFT in a surprise attack on Taiwan. To implement the attack, the Chinese kidnap Choi, a top-notch physicist from America. But when hes rescued from prison by John Taft of the National Intelligence Agency, the Chinese switch their focus to acquiring the Einstein papers, and the chase is on. In the second of two set pieces (Taft and Chois suspenseful escape from China is the first), Taft and his partner Larry Martinez spend the mid-part of the novel tracking a Chinese courier from Boston to Washington. The novels complicated final third brings together those on both sides engaged in research, diplomacy and skullduggery. Overall, the writing is breezy and clear, the action is constant and the weapon developed from Einsteins theory is credible and fascinating, though Dirgos knowledge of subatomic physics seems hazy at best. Despite some glaringly cute touches (Tafts NIA number is 7; there are several in-joke references to Cussler and Pitt) and a hero whose chief character trait seems to be the ability to get up after being knocked down, knocked out or shot, this is an entertaining debut that should definitely appeal to Cussler fans.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
The coauthor with Clive Cussler of The Sea Hunters (1996) and Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed (not reviewed) debuts with his first solo adventure novel. Federal agent John Taft, something of a James Bond/Dirk Pitt superman, is searching for Einstein's missing formula for the Unified Field Theory. As it happens, a few days before Hiroshima was A-bombed, Einstein actually (in this story) solved the theory. But when the bomb was dropped, he chose to withhold the formula from his fellow scientists and instead entered it (T, E, S, something, A) into the star chart aboard his sailboat Windforce. Ten years later he died, and the Windforce was on its way to a junkyard when a large ship accidentally rammed it. The boat sank. Now the Chinese are hot on the trail of the missing formula: with it they could make a golf-ballsized bomb that would make the Australian continent disappear, or a car-sized bomb that would blow up the planeta neato device for blackmail. Taft first rescues a kidnaped scientist from China, then goes out to find the remains of the Windforce on the sea bottom . . . . The first half is top-drawer as it circles around the missing formula; the rest is less gripping since the formula is on the back burner until the final pages. Even so, well done and much fun with ironic dialogue. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Einsteins Unified Field Theory is the MacGuffin in this competent debut by Clive Cussler collaborator Dirgo (Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed). The premise is that Einstein actually came up with the theory in August 1945, but hid his notes and formulae on his boat Windforce after Hiroshima. Now, nearly 40 years after Einsteins death and the loss of his boat at sea, a belligerent China plans to use a weapon based on the UFT in a surprise attack on Taiwan. To implement the attack, the Chinese kidnap Choi, a top-notch physicist from America. But when hes rescued from prison by John Taft of the National Intelligence Agency, the Chinese switch their focus to acquiring the Einstein papers, and the chase is on. In the second of two set pieces (Taft and Chois suspenseful escape from China is the first), Taft and his partner Larry Martinez spend the mid-part of the novel tracking a Chinese courier from Boston to Washington. The novels complicated final third brings together those on both sides engaged in research, diplomacy and skullduggery. Overall, the writing is breezy and clear, the action is constant and the weapon developed from Einsteins theory is credible and fascinating, though Dirgos knowledge of subatomic physics seems hazy at best. Despite some glaringly cute touches (Tafts NIA number is 7; there are several in-joke references to Cussler and Pitt) and a hero whose chief character trait seems to be the ability to get up after being knocked down, knocked out or shot, this is an entertaining debut that should definitely appeal to Cussler fans.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
The coauthor with Clive Cussler of The Sea Hunters (1996) and Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed (not reviewed) debuts with his first solo adventure novel. Federal agent John Taft, something of a James Bond/Dirk Pitt superman, is searching for Einstein's missing formula for the Unified Field Theory. As it happens, a few days before Hiroshima was A-bombed, Einstein actually (in this story) solved the theory. But when the bomb was dropped, he chose to withhold the formula from his fellow scientists and instead entered it (T, E, S, something, A) into the star chart aboard his sailboat Windforce. Ten years later he died, and the Windforce was on its way to a junkyard when a large ship accidentally rammed it. The boat sank. Now the Chinese are hot on the trail of the missing formula: with it they could make a golf-ballsized bomb that would make the Australian continent disappear, or a car-sized bomb that would blow up the planeta neato device for blackmail. Taft first rescues a kidnaped scientist from China, then goes out to find the remains of the Windforce on the sea bottom . . . . The first half is top-drawer as it circles around the missing formula; the rest is less gripping since the formula is on the back burner until the final pages. Even so, well done and much fun with ironic dialogue. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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