Bill Napier

Bill Napier, author of "Shattered Icon", seems to be trying to be Britain's answer to Dan Brown, author of the super-success "The Da Vinci Code".
There are many similarities between "Shattered Icon" and "The Da Vinci Code". The story is very fast-moving, the hero and heroine are well-educated people with specialised historical knowledge, and the plot is based on events related to the Catholic church that happened long ago.
When I started the book I was swept along by the fast-paced action and was enjoying the idea of an encrypted 400-year-old journal. But as I continued reading I realised that the story was not very believable. By the time I got to the end, I could see holes in the plot that were big enough to drive a bus through.
If you're willing to totally suspend your disbelief and go along for the ride, then this is lots of fun. But if a plot that doesn't make sense and characters that are fairly two-dimensional reduce your enjoyment of a book, then you should look elsewhere.… (altro)

Well, this book is a surprise (using some advanced physics).

Looking for ZPE (Casimir effect http://www.mit.edu/~kardar/research/seminars/Casimir/Casimir1948.pdf , here is (on page 154 of the Dutch translation) a connection with the Foucalt pendulum ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum ).


https://www.ias.edu/video/negative-energy-quantum-information-and-causality

https://opc-kb.oclc.org/DB=1/SET=1/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=1016&SRT=YOP&... kern bill napier KB.nl
https://www.boekbeschrijvingen.nl/napier-bill/napier.html Duth translations… (altro)

This has been lying on my tbr mountain for ages and now I know why, after reading Nemesis and Shattered Icon I was really looking forward to this. I found it really disappointing, it wasn't the science that let the book down it was the rest of the story. When the George Bush clone is the most reasonable of the world leaders involved in the story then you know that you've got problems. Having said that I did read this in one sitting so it can't be that bad, I just think it suffers in comparison with his other books.… (altro)