Dante's Equation

In a breathless thriller that explores the relationship between science and the divine, good and evil, space and time, Jane Jensen takes us from the world we know into a reality we could only scarcely imagine. Until now.

"Powerful . . . A combustible mixture of science and mysticism, a high-altitude thriller fizzing with intrigue."--John Case, author of The Eighth Day

Rabbi Aharon Handalman's expertise with Torah code--rearranging words and letters in the Bible--has uncovered a man's name. Who is Yosef Kobinski, and why did God hide his name in His sacred text? To find the answers, Aharon begins an investigation, and discovers that Kobinski, a Polish rabbi, was not only a mystic but also a brilliant physicist who authored what may be the most important lost work in human history.

In Seattle, Jill Talcott's work with energy wave equations is being linked to Yosef Kobinski, now deceased, who claimed nearly fifty years ago that he discovered an actual physical law of good and evil. But when Jill's lab explodes, she is forced to flee for her life, realizing that her cutting-edge research is far more dangerous than she ever has imagined. And that powerful people have a stake in what she may have uncovered.

Now Jill, her research partner, and a writer fascinated by Kobinski are about to meet Handalman in Poland--all four desperate to solve the astonishing riddle. Searching through the past, they trace Kobinski to a clearing in the woods near Auschwitz. And in that clearing they come face-to-face with the inexplicable: that Kobinski, drawing on his own alchemy of science and the Kabbalah, made himself vanish from the death camp in a blaze of fire. Now, with intelligence agents hot on their trail, the investigators have no choice. They must follow Kobinski--to wherever he may have gone. . . .

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Published: 07/29/2003
ISBN: 9780345430373
Pages: 484
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2003 pg. 722
Publishers Weekly 06/16/2003 pg. 48
Library Journal 06/15/2003 pg. 104
Booklist 08/01/2003 pg. 1968
School Library Journal 01/01/2004 pg. 163
LJ Best Books of Year 01/01/2004 pg. 51
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2004 pg. 60

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 76682 / Dante's Equation
Reading Level: 5.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 33