Book description
On July 21, 1969 two astronauts set foot on the moon; far below, in
ravaged Mozambique, a young revolutionary - hailed as the saviour of
his country - is murdered by a package bomb. From these two
unconnected events, Simon Ings weaves a great and glittering web that
entangles four lives: Anthony Burden, a mathematical genius destroyed
by the beauty of numbers; Saul Cogan, transformed from prankster
idealist to trafficker in the poor and dispossessed; and Stacey
Chavez, ex-teenage celebrity and mediocre performance artist, hungry
for fame and starved of love. All are haunted by Nick Jinks, a man who
sows disaster wherever he treads. As the twentieth century unravels,
Burden, Cogan, Chavez and Jinks are powerless to escape the
connections that bind them. This is not fate, but its opposite: the
weight of numbers.
