Would you do anything to know everything? Melbourne academic Daniel Page is summoned to a disciplinary meeting to hear what he thinks is a fairly innocuous charge against a colleague. What he discovers in unimaginable: an ancient secret that has the power to either provide an infinite power source or to blow the world apart. Desperate to save the world from an explosion more deadly than Krakatoa, Page joins forces with an old friend and an alluring colleague to work out the equation and save the world. Together they embark on a frantic hunt from Bali to forgotten archives within one of Australia’s most prestigious schools. The Faustian Equation examines the question, would you sell your soul for unlimited knowledge?