The God Particle: A novel by Richard Cox

A billionaire tycoon finances a Texas particle accelerator. When money runs low, he is forced to bring in shadowy investors. This is the premise of Richard Cox’s The God Particle, a novel in which the lives of three people – a particle physicist, a reporter and a man who’s incurred a mysterious brain injury – unwittingly intertwine. In the middle of it all is the Higgs boson, aka the “God particle”. Cox writes with a decent understanding of physics mixed with dramatic fantasy. The plot is often silly but makes for good summer reading if you prefer your conspiracy,…