Newtons Fire

A breathtaking thriller which weaves history and religion with action, adventure and apocalypse… Luke Hayward is a man with a troubled past. An Isaac Newton scholar by trade, Luke has railed against authority all his life. But he is offered an opportunity by a client seeking some lost Newton papers, and is in no position to refuse. Luke’s search takes him to a dusty attic, where he happens upon a seemingly abstract set of scribbles that he realises are the work of the great mathematician himself. But when his employer turns nasty, Luke realises that these scribbles are anything but abstract… Meanwhile, in Old Jerusalem, Avram Kohen is plotting a viciously provocative strike that will spark the holy war to end all holy wars, an event that has at its heart the most sacred religious site in the world, and the most sacred artifact. And Kohen’s backers – a conspiracy that has links all the way to the top of the world’s elite – will stop at nothing to see their plans through. Luke’s chase to find the truth behind Newton’s madness, and Avram’s fundamentalist mission, are about to collide with apocalyptic force. And only one thing is certain – the world will soon burn in Newton’s Fire… A breathtaking thriller which weaves history and religion with action, adventure and apocalypse… Luke Hayward is adrift. Blacklisted out of academia, he 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 Luke into a race to uncover the truth behind some seemingly random scribblings – a race which pits Luke against a fundamentalist madman with dangerously powerful friends. Luke 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 wars…