A Spellbinding Thriller about a Science History

Professor on the Run for his Life and an Unpublished Einstein

Theory that Could Change the World

Debut 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 died without 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 sixteen languages, 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.

馬克．艾伯特（Mark Alpert）

被譽為「科學怪傑」的馬克．艾伯特畢業於普林斯頓大學的天體物理學系，其畢業論文便是關於愛因斯坦的相關理論研究。在獲得哥倫比亞大學的MFA（Masters of Fine Arts）詩歌獎後，他開始從事編譯記者的工作，目前在《科學人》（Scientific American） 擔任編輯一職。他長期追蹤並報導有關2008年夏天歐洲核子研究中心（CERN）一項有關「萬有理論」的實驗，因而有了靈感寫下《最後理論》。

他運用本身深厚的教育背景與物理知識理解，融合經典的科學元素，加上描述豐富、情節逼真的內容，融合自身的文學素養，以簡明的文句為讀者描述複雜的科學理論，成功地塑造出其脫俗而生動的寫作風格。

艾伯特現今與妻兒居住於紐約市曼哈頓區。