American mathematics genius James Fenster has just been blown to bits during a World Trade Organization meeting in Amsterdam and aging Interpol agent Henri Poincaré takes the case. His wife wants him to retire but Henri has kept his family away from the less savoury aspects of his work for so long that it never entered his head that his recent single-minded apprehension of a war criminal could put all of them in danger.
Henri immerses himself in the Fenster puzzle, finding that Fenster had much in common with Henri’s revered great grandfather but Fenster was only modeling fractals and exploring chaos theory so why are so many people fighting to get hold of his data and would one of them kill him for it? Against a background of a global countdown by religious crazies trying to hasten the end times, Henri heartsick in more ways than one has a week left on active service and he’s determined to close this case even if it kills him.
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