Newton's fire
By: Will Adams
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780007424221; 9780007424238; 9780007424252
Subjects: Code and cipher stories; Conspiracies; Fiction
Description: June 2016. Another scorching summer sparks wildfires worldwide. Droughts and famine leave millions homeless. Wars in the Middle East, terrorism at home, and a devastating earthquake that rips Jerusalem in two. The world trembles upon the brink of war. Luke Keating, a young Isaac Newton scholar, finds a trove of long-lost Newton papers.
Notes: Also available as an ebook.
Table of contents: title: A breathtaking story which weaves history and politics with action, adventure and apocalypse! Luke Hayward, disgraced Newton scholar, makes a discovery in an attic: lost Newton papers, a ciphered clue left three centuries ago by a genius who believed he was one of God's chosen prophets. But Luke isn't the only one to have cracked the code. Avram Kohen is a fundamentalist priest, on a mission to re-draw the map of the religous world in the blood of his enemies. Both Luke and Avram discover something buried beneath London; title: something that could be used to spark a fire that will burn the world ...