The secret of life

Summary/Review: "When Alwin, a disaffected young physicist, takes a vacation in Florence with his wife Sybil and finds himself kidnapped by terrorists, he is soon wrapped up in a potentially world-changing--and utterly bizarre--plot. It's not just that the terrorists are building an atomic bomb, which they want Alwin to help with, and it's not just that he is desperately attracted to one of his captors. It's that they have trapped a weird, four-dimensional creature of hypermatter who happens to resemble, well, a spherical naked woman. And who absolutely oozes mind-clouding, desire-inducing pheromones."--Back cover.