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From the Product Description: American businessman Steve Keeley is hurtled three stories to the cold cobblestone street in Zurich. In the days that follow, a doctor performs miraculous surgery on Keeley, who wakes up to find that everything about his world has changed. He seems to sense things before they happen, and thinks he's capable of feats that are clearly impossible. IT's a strange and compelling new world for him, one he quickyl realizes is also incredibly dangerous. Meanwhile, at a $12 billion facility in hardscrabble North Texas, a super collider lies two hundred feet beneath the Earth's surface. Leading a team of scientists, Mike McNair, a brillian physicist, works to uncover one of the universe's greatest secrets -- a theoretical particle that binds the universe together, often called the God Particle. When his efforts are undermined by the man who has poured his own vast fortune into the project, McNair begins to suspect that something in his research has gone very, very wrong. Now, these two men are about to come together, battling mysteries of science and of the soul -- and venturing to a realm beyond reason, beyond faith, perhaps even beyond life and death. |
Richard Cox creates a story that is part mystery, part science, and a hint of spirituality. A supercollider has been constructed in the search of a particle called the Higgs particle. The head scientist at the supercollider project is Mike McNair, and he's in a race to detect the Higgs particle before his superiors replace him. At the same time, in an entirely unrelated event, an executive named Steve Keeley suffers a fall from a building that should have killed him. He awakens in a strange Swiss clinic. Soon after Steve awakens, strange things begin to happen to him. Is it something the doctor did? or something else?
Steve has the ability to sense the Higgs field. Of course, you can see where this is headed. Steve is sensing the Higgs field, and McNair is searching for it. Eventually they're going to run into each other.
Along the way, there'll be a great deal of intrigue -- what really happened at that strange Swiss clinic. Who's pulling the strings behind the supercollider project? and is someone sabotaging it?
Altogether, the book is an enjoyable read. The science isn't overburdening, and the plot is easy to follow.