Odds Against Tomorrow (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250043641)

New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor works on the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming. A brilliant mathematician, he spends his days calculating worst-case scenarios for FutureWorld, a consulting firm that indemnifies corporations against potential disasters. As Mitchell immerses himself in the calculus of catastrophe, he exchanges letters with Elsa Bruner--a college crush with her own apocalyptic secret--and becomes obsessed by a culture's fears. When Mitchell's darkest predictions come true and an actual worst-case scenario engulfs Manhattan, he realizes that he is uniquely prepared to profit. But what will it cost him?

Odds Against Tomorrow, hailed by Rolling Stone as "the first great climate-change novel," is an all-too-plausible literary thriller, an unexpected love story, and a philosophically searching inquiry into the nature of fear. The future is not what it used to be.

Author: Nathaniel Rich
ISBN-10: 1250043646
ISBN-13: 9781250043641
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2014
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.58w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/11/2014 pg. 36