Life's a lottery . . . but death's a certainty . . .
1946: Nuremburg Medical Trials: Dr Wilhelm Eckhardt is smuggled by US agents back to America under Operation Paperclip to head up Sub-project 151, the most secret experiment of the CIA's Cold War mind control program MK-Ultra.
Over half a century later Nancy Kronziac, of the FBI's Domestic Terrorism Unit in Los Angeles, investigates the tragic disappearance of a sixteen-year-old girl. She does find the teenager - but wrapped in a bin liner and buried at the bottom of sewage tank.
Kronziac's investigation of the murder reveals a series of mysterious cryptograms and riddles received by various police departments throughout the western states. Enlisting the help of Harvard mathematics professor James Ellstrom they slowly crack the codes that lead them to discover that the girl was just one of many . . .
To find the killer and stop the mounting slaughter, Kronziac must link the past and the present, she must follow a mathematical sequence that occurs everywhere in nature, from petals on a flower to the celestial movements of the havens.
But, above all she must pierce the evil of a hidden mind . . . The fraction of zero.
