When a team of American scientists tests new computer hardware by calculating the value of piinto the deep decimals, the figures begin to repeat a pattern where there ought to be none. It’smathematically untenable—unless the physical constants that undergird our universe havealtered, ever so slightly…

A cascade of missing persons reports, far from being supernatural, threatens to be perfectlynatural—a profound disturbance in being itself—and explodes into a mind trip of a crescendo inthis tale of quantum horror.