TRAPPED BY AMBITION. ENLIGHTENED BY WISDOM. DECEIVED BY DESTINY.
When a spiritual retreat turns into a bloodbath, a Buddhist monk's severed head leads Hugo Hyde and his team to Shanghai, where they encounter an artificial intelligence that could give China the power to rule the world.
The struggle for global domination turns into an apocalyptic nightmare when the AI reveals a shocking truth about the fragile nature of our universe.
Torn between love and loyalty, Hugo contemplates a final sacrifice as the fate of the entire cosmos hinges on his choice.
No higher stakes novel has ever been written. The protagonist retraces the footsteps of a murdered quantum physicist, who seemed to have discovered that our universe could collapse any time…