CD Edition
by Michael White
narrated by Richard Burnip
Genre: Adventure/Thriller
Age Group: Adult
Book Reference: DIR1900
ISBN: 978 1 4074 8035 0
Duration: 10h (approx.) on 9 CDs
Publication Date: April 2008
Oxford, 2006: a young woman is found brutally murdered, her throat cut. Her heart has been removed and in its place lies an apparently ancient gold coin. Twenty-four hours later, another woman is found. This time her brain has been removed, and a silver coin lies glittering in her skull. The police are baffled.
But when police photographer, Philip Bainbridge and his estranged lover, Laura Niven become involved, they discover that these horrific, ritualistic murders are not confined to the here and now. And a shocking story begins to emerge which intertwines Sir Isaac Newton, one of seventeenth-century England's most powerful figures, with a deadly conspiracy which echoes down the years to the present day...
Literary Review
“An unqualified success.”
Sunday Times
“Lively and illuminating.”
The Economist
“White's virtue lies in making the subject seem both accessible and fun.”