When Lemuel Falk, a Soviet professor of chaos theory running from Stalinists, arrives as a visiting professor at an institute in upstate New York, he becomes entangled with an intriguing cast of characters that include an attractive, drug-dealing female barber, a pot-addled rabbi, and a host of spies and bureaucrats who want to use Falk?s mathematical talents for their own nation-building purposes. Along the way, Falk uses his talents at analyzing random events to nab a serial killer whose string of murders had seemed unconnected. By turns intellectual and funny, THE VISITING PROFESSOR is a quirky foray into mathematics by established thriller author Robert Littell. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.