SummaryIn 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. 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. . . .
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