Summary:

David Swift, a failed physicist turned science historian, is summoned by the police to the deathbed of his former mentor, renowned physicist Hans Kleinman. The elderly scientist and student of Albert Einstein was beaten and tortured by an unknown assailant seeking information about the Einheitliche Feldtheorie, or unified theory, a single set of equations that would explain all the forces of Nature. Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for this theory, but he d...