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[Doug Millison]

from PW Daily for Booksellers (May 23, 2002):

Broad in scope and supremely ambitious, Jorge Volpi's novel, In Search
of Klingsor (Scribner)--the first in a projected trilogy--succeeds at
several levels: as a thriller about a U.S. military officer seeking to
ferret out the identity of the scientist who directed Nazi research
during WWII, as a scientific search for truth by a physicist who
encounters Einstein, Von Neumann, Schr–dinger, Neils Bohr and other
great minds of the 20th century and as a literary novel about a moral
quest to destroy an evil that dates back to ancient. In an era in
which science has become the primary vehicle for moving society
forward, Volpi offers a poignant, powerful reminder of the potential
and the peril involved when we harness the forces of nature.