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Average rating3.6
An American mathematician’s assignment in Russia spirals into a high-stakes maze of shifting loyalties and intrigue in a propulsive short thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child.
Nathan Tyler is an unassuming professor at a middling American university with a rather obscure specialty in mathematics—in short, a nobody from nowhere. So why is the White House calling? Summoned to Washington, DC, for a top-secret briefing, Nathan discovers that he’s the key to a massive foreign intelligence breakthrough. Reading between the lines of a cryptic series of equations, he could open a door straight into the heart of the Kremlin and change the global balance of power forever. All he has to do is get to a meeting with the renowned Russian mathematician who created it. But when Nathan crashes headlong into a dangerous new game, the odds against him suddenly look a lot steeper.
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I like Lee Child and his Jack Reacher series, but now, after reading Eleven Numbers, I also like Lee Child stories that don't feature Jack Reacher.
Eleven Numbers is a clever little short story, a tale of present day espionage with a mathematician as its central character.
If you like short stories and espionage, you could do worse than this. At 50 pages, it's the perfect way to while away half an hour.
I picked this book as part of my January First Reads on Kindle.