Dante's Equation
Del Ray, Del Ray.
Trade Paperback, 484 pages.
ISBN: 0345430379
Dr. Jill Talcott is obsessed with her energy wave
equations, to the point that she promises her
sleazy superior half the credit if he'll just give
her time on the department's coveted supercomputer
which she needs to crunch all the numbers in the
complicated equations. Jill's research seems to
be correlated with the findings of a dead
scientist and Kabbalist, Yosef Kobinski, who claimed to have
found the physics equations for good and evil -- the
very underpinnings of the universe. Halfway around
the world Rabbi Aharon Handalman is a scholar
specializing in Torah code. Rabbi Handalman
has found many references to Yosef Kobinski
and his research leads him to Dr. Talcott, just
as her lab explodes and she is forced to run for
her life from government agents who wish to use
her research for destructive purposes. Dr. Talcott,
her assistant, Rabbi Handalman and a journalist
who is also on the trail of the same story eventually
all meet and set out on the trail of Kobinski -- who
mysteriously disappeared from the Auschwitz
concentration camp near the end of World War II.
What they find could change the world forever -- or destroy it.
Author Jane Jensen delivers the goods in this thriller that fans of The da Vinci Code will enjoy. Jensen takes the principles of the Kabbalah, a mystical offshoot of Judaism and uses it as the base for her story. The author shows the different personality types found in humans, according to the teachings of Kabbalah, and how each of them can be transformed. The idea that the very fabric of the universe sets the stage for good and evil is not a new one, but Jensen executes it extremely well in this tautly written thriller.
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This review was published in the September-October, 2003 of The Internet Writing Journal.
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