Final Theory by Mark Alpert

Synopsis :

David Swift, a professor at Columbia University, is called to the hospital to comfort his mentor, a physicist who's been brutally tortured. Before dying, the old man wheezes "Einheitliche Feldtheorie." The Theory of Everything. The Destroyer of Worlds. Could this be Einstein's proposed Unified Theory--a set of equations that combines the physics of galaxies with the laws of atoms? Einstein never succeeded in discovering it. Or did he? 

Within hours of hearing his mentor's last words, David is running for his life. The FBI and a ruthless mercenary are vying to get their hands on the long-hidden theory. Teaming up with his old girlfriend, a brilliant Princeton scientist, David frantically works out Einstein's final theory to reveal the staggering scope of its consequences. 

This is what I say :

Final Theory is written by an actual scientist (physicist) so it's as real as it can get in terms of terminologies and getting the formulas correctly. 

A thriller in nature, the story started with murder and death and some codes being passed on and shared with the main character and with the authorities and mercenaries hot on his heels, he has to ensure that he gets to the theory first before the others caught up with him.

Actually, the story reminds me of The Da Vinci Code but with scientific formula instead of secret codes. David Swift is also a university professor like Robert Langdon.

With the similarities, it's all in the way the author wrote it and presented the story line  and it was thrilling and captivating enough for much enjoyment especially for those who love thriller.

This is the first title by Mark Alpert published in 2009 and he did a sequel to this entitled The Omega Theory which was published in 2011 and none thereafter for this series.  He has another series (which has better ratings in goodreads) but which I have yet to check out.