Your favourite unsolved mystery?

up for anything wrote: »

Two highly intelligent and gifted lads like Gosden and Sloley disappearing within such a short space of time makes me want to write a book with a plot line of the UK government or some other agency running a rogue operation kidnapping genius kids and brainwashing them into working on some as yet unknown project.

I had been thinking the exact same thing.

I was thinking along very similar lines for a plot, but not a kidnapping.

The two boys, Gosden and Sloley, attend the same maths camp where they are working on problems in theoretical computer science. Between them, they solve P=NP (you must suspend your disbelief for a moment), and therefore the latent potential of all endeavours in human civilisation opens broadly before them, a great wall in the progress of man falls away, and they contemplate a world without cancer, without a need for humans to toil and labour, and where the boards.ie responsive site is a pleasure to use. It seems almost Biblical.

The boys' supervisor finds out what they have done, and all of their elation turns to horror when, portentively, gloomily, he warns of the great terror & turmoil that their discovery could preciptate. All three agree to sit on it, and do nothing for the moment. A fortnight later the maths tutor turns-up dead in Moscow. One of the boys starts to be followed. He runs away to London. MI6 are soon called in, and the security services are now keeping a close eye on Boy 2, but still only the two boys have the Proof.

There are intrigues, double-crossings, near-fatal mistakes and,everywhere, there is deceit. Two pages before the curtain falls on this masterful thriller, the two boys are on a ferry leaving Ushuaia, Argentina. But I can't say whether it's a kidnapping or an escape, or whether they survive. You'll have to buy the book.

Wibbs wrote: »

Needs more explosions and bare chested ladies.

It's a maths thriller. It will be bubbling over with vulgar functions and secs