The Crack of Doom

A speculative novel narrated by Arthur Marcel, a well-off Englishman returning from three years of travel. On the liner bringing him back from New York, he meets Herbert Brande, a brilliant scientist who believes the universe is a mistake, and his sister Natalie, who fascinates him. To stay close to her, he joins the secret society that Brande leads. He discovers that its members communicate by thought, do away with anyone whose loyalty is in doubt, and intend to destroy the Earth with the energy locked inside atoms. A dark and strange story in which science becomes a threat to the whole world.