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Odds against tomorrow

While working for a mysterious financial consulting firm that offers insurance to corporations against impending catastrophic events, a gifted young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his actual worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan.

Main Author: Rich, Nathaniel, 1980-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Scientists > Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Science fiction.
Summary: While working for a mysterious financial consulting firm that offers insurance to corporations against impending catastrophic events, a gifted young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his actual worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan.
Physical Description: 306 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780374224240 (hbk.)
0374224242 (hbk.)
Author Notes: Nathaniel Rich is the author of The Mayor's Tongue . His essays and short fiction haveappeared in Harper's Magazine , The New York Review of Books , McSweeney's , and The New York Times Magazine . Born in New York City, he nowlives in New Orleans.

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