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The Lost Notebook
Jake Brogan, recuperating at home in Princeton, NJ from wounds received in Iraq, finds a notebook filled with formulas in a footlocker in his attic. There is no name on the notebook. He shows it to a friend, Katie Sanderson, who is a PhD candidate in physics, and she and two of her friends from the university begin to study it.
The notebook contains advance work by Albert Einstein, new theories in quantum physics that can modify the state of matter – work that Einstein withheld from the world because of its terrible potential. But before the young physicists discover that fact, a page is shown to a professor who realizes what it is, and offers to sell it to an unscrupulous buyer.
As the group unravel the formulas, they discover that they can be used to produce wonders. But they can also be used to produce a new, non-nuclear weapon capable of releasing massive energies by annihilating any material.
Through a series of events, the notebook falls into the hands of a radical group within a new, emerging Islamic superpower. They create two devices that they plant in New York and Washington, DC, with the intent to trigger both during the president’s State of the Union address.
While Jake Brogan and his CIA father, Hank, work with a joint task force to try to find the devices, the young scientists struggle to find a way to use the same physics to defeat the devices.
And time is running out.
The notebook contains advance work by Albert Einstein, new theories in quantum physics that can modify the state of matter – work that Einstein withheld from the world because of its terrible potential. But before the young physicists discover that fact, a page is shown to a professor who realizes what it is, and offers to sell it to an unscrupulous buyer.
As the group unravel the formulas, they discover that they can be used to produce wonders. But they can also be used to produce a new, non-nuclear weapon capable of releasing massive energies by annihilating any material.
Through a series of events, the notebook falls into the hands of a radical group within a new, emerging Islamic superpower. They create two devices that they plant in New York and Washington, DC, with the intent to trigger both during the president’s State of the Union address.
While Jake Brogan and his CIA father, Hank, work with a joint task force to try to find the devices, the young scientists struggle to find a way to use the same physics to defeat the devices.
And time is running out.
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First published November 1, 2011
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Thor Duffin
4 books4 followersBorn in Alaska, graduated from high school in Germany. Grew up in between. Lived several years in D.C. when my father worked in the White House. Used to do "duck and cover" drills in school in Arlington.
US Army 1971-1973. Thankfully avoided Vietnam by repairing radar in Germany.
Married, 5 grown children and 10 grandchildren.
Loved basketball when I could still play, still love watching the Spurs.
Paid the bills by programming for Intel, HP, Microsoft and many smaller companies, mostly consulting.
Took a year off and wrote my first book in 2010 and have publish two more since.
Currently working on a trilogy.
(bored yet?)
US Army 1971-1973. Thankfully avoided Vietnam by repairing radar in Germany.
Married, 5 grown children and 10 grandchildren.
Loved basketball when I could still play, still love watching the Spurs.
Paid the bills by programming for Intel, HP, Microsoft and many smaller companies, mostly consulting.
Took a year off and wrote my first book in 2010 and have publish two more since.
Currently working on a trilogy.
(bored yet?)
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July 4, 2020
One of the most intelligent seat of the chair page turners I've read in many years. Enjoyed the. Characters, dialogue, and plot twists. Thoroughly satisfying read!
June 27, 2017
Here is Thor's second book. Another thriller, but not as political as The Jefferson Project. I really enjoyed it, inspite of the physics that's in it. I was worried that the physics would go way over my head, but he was able to dumb it down enough for me to understand (kinda).
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