Quantum Author:Tom Grace "On the lush University of Michigan campus a researcher unveils an energy cell prototype to a group of executives and academics. The invention-still in an experimental stage-is called a quantum power cell. If harnessed, it could change the world's dependency on both oil and nuclear energy, and make some people very, very rich. Halfway around th... more »e world Russia's most powerful biznesman, Victor Orlvov, bankrolls a competing quantum project, knowing full well that to harvest quantum's profits, he must stop the Americans first. In an act of terror carried out on the Ann Arbor campus, the U.S. quantum researcher is left hospitalized, his life's work stolen, his project in shambles. Now, the race is on-between scientists and secret agents, between American and Russian warriors. And in the middle of the fight is Nolan Kilkenny: a former Navy SEAL turned scientific researcher. Kilkenny has been trying to make a home in academia by the side of the beautiful physicist, Kelsey Newton. But Kilkenny and Newton are at ground zero when the battle for quantum explodes. Suddenly, they are swept into a war that will rage halfway around the globe, and that hinges on one secret left behind a half century before. In 1948 a German scientist went missing at the University of Michigan, his research seemingly lost forever. For Kilkenny, saving quantum means uncovering the mystery of the past: how a man died, what he left behind, and how to unravel the extraordinary code in which he cloaked his secrets. A story of men and women forced to make impossible choices, QUANTUM hurls us into the dangers of the twenty-first century-where human courage may still be the most unpredicatable and potent force of all..."« less