A failed author loses everything he holds dear on September 11: his wife leaves him, his book flops, and the bookstore where he earns his living is in ruins. Then he receives a lucrative offer to write the memoirs of a man who shares his name but is otherwise his complete opposite: an internet mogul, the inventor of the algorithm that enables total surveillance and changes all our lives. Autobiography, family saga, ghostwriting for beginners, Silicon Valley history, international thriller, sex comedy - "Book of Numbers" is an exuberant book and a cult classic in America.