When Albert Einstein told Franklin Roosevelt in that the atomic bomb was possible he did not tell the president about another discovery he had made something so extreme and horrific it remained a secret until now This extraordinary new novel from one of the most brilliant talents in contemporary fiction is a standout literary thriller in which one man stumbles upon the discovery Einstein himself tried to keep hiddenWhen twelve-year-old Daphne Marrity takes a videotape labeled Pee-wees Big Adventure from her grandmothers house neither she nor her college-professor father Frank Marrity has any idea that the theft has drawn the attention of both the Israeli Secret Service and an ancient European cabal of occultistsor that within hours theyll be visited by her long-lost grandfather who is also desperate to get that tapeAnd when Daphnes teddy bear is stolen a blind assassin nearly kills Frank and a phantom begins to speak to her from a switched-off television set Daphne and her father find themselves caught in the middle of a murderous power struggle that originated long ago in Israel and Germany but now crashes through Los Angeles and out to the Mojave Desert To survive they must quickly learn the rules of a dangerous magical chess game and use all their cleverness and courageas well as their love and loyalty to each otherto escape a fate more profound than deathA pulse-pounding epic adventure that blurs the lines between espionage and the supernatural good and evil past present and future Three Days to Never is an exhilarating masterwork of speculative suspense from the always remarkable imagination of the incomparable Tim Powers.
