This fast-paced thriller is similar to The Da Vinci Code. The premise is an ancient secret society called "The Thousand" that follows a near religious philosophy promulgated by Pythagoras and expanded by his present day followers who are divided in a "civil war."

This group has tremendously influential members all connected by the belief that numbers and their understanding will eventually bring humanity to complete knowledge of the universe--and also its end. The acusmatici want to slow humanity’s destruction, and the mathematici want to accelerate numerical discoveries even at the expense of the innocent.

Canada Gold is the unknowing daughter of parents in The Thousand and the focus of a power play between factions. The story is set in the summer in Chicago during a major and worsening electrical blackout, for which there seems to be sinister origins.

--Recommended by Susie

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