Newton's fire

ISBN: 9780007424221 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0007424221 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print 502 p. ; 20 cm.
Publisher: London : Harper, 2012.

Adams, Will 1963- (Author).

Summary: A blacklisted academic is in no position to refuse when a client asks for his expert help in recovering some lost Isaac Newton papers. But a chance discovery in a dusty attic plunges him into a race to uncover the truth behind some seemingly random scribblings - a race which pits him against a fundamentalist madman with dangerously powerful friends. He discovers connections between Oxford, London and the Old City of Jerusalem in a breathless chase to uncover a secret hidden in the eccentric ramblings of a mathematical genius; a secret that, in the wrong hands, could be used to spark the holy war to end all holy war.