Introduction: Alex Young is a reclusive mathematician at the brink of his academic career: his research is getting rejected and he has nothing to show for his next performance review. When an elusive research group offers him the opportunity to revitalise his career with a maths problem unlike anything he has ever seen, his world is turned inside out. Literally.His pursuit for the truth leads him to a conspiracy where nothing is as it seems. A clandestine society challenges his understanding of the world and promises things that seem too good to be true.Can mathematics really save the world?Or is there something sinister going on that Alex needs to realise before it's too late?And can he ever escape the ghosts of his past?...