Odds against tomorrow
By: Nathaniel Rich
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780374224240
Subjects: Scientists; Fiction
Description: While working for a mysterious financial consulting firm that offers insurance to corporations against impending catastrophic events, a gifted young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his actual worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan.