Turbulence: A novel (Vintage International)

ISBN: 030747626X

Author: Foden, Giles

Condition: New

Giles Foden, the prizewinning author of The Last King of Scotland, delivers a mesmerizing blend of fact and fiction in this novel about how human beings deal with uncertainty.Five days before D-day, a team of Allied scientists is charged with making an accurate weather forecast for the landings. Henry Meadows-a young math prodigy from the Met Office-is sent to Scotland to uncover Wallace Rymans revolutionary system for understanding turbulence, one of the last great mysteries of modern physics. But Ryman is a reclusive pacifist who stubbornly refuses to divulge his secrets, and when Henry meets Gill-Rymans beautiful wife-events, like the weather, begin to spiral out of control.