Odds Against Tomorrow

A dark satire about a gifted young statistician who is hired by a New York financial consulting firm to calculate the probabilities of catastrophe scenarios--from ecological collapse and climate change to global war and terrorism--and sell his schemes to corporations who want to indemnify themselves against future disasters. As Mitchell immerses himself in his own neurotic fears and falls into step with some of 21st century capitalism's most destructive trends, an actual natural disaster overtakes Manhattan.