“Go write me a thriller based on dark matter that doesn’t insult my intelligence”
This is that book – definitely out of the ordinary and hard to put down. Our hero Robert is a physicist who, working on series of dark matter experiments, has come very close to a breakthrough. Suddenly his company’s funding is cut and he and his teammates finds themselves unemployed. Add to this his girlfriend Cora is going through her own trauma after recently losing her sister. She deals with this loss and Robert’s trauma with her own brand of new age mysticism which Robert, as a data driven scientist, has a hard time accepting.
His world is falling apart, nothing makes sense, so just in time, he is able to escape on a long-planned hike to Tibet with a friend where he encounters life changing events. Despite this, he is not quite ready to question reality. Coming home, he is offered an enormous amount of money by a mysterious organization (ORB) to sabotage a critical round of experiments at CERN. Their justification is that the particles created in those accelerator experiments will tear apart the fabric of reality. On top of that, his long dead father is revealed to be….not dead. Not dead at all and hiding out at CERN as a physicist under an assumed name. Add to that the reappearance of some very dead friends and…well…things start to get a bit weird.
Excellent read, couldn’t put it down. Crossed up Science and mysticism in a way that wasn’t stupid!