The Secret Fire by Martin Langfield
Sotheby's, London, 1936. A paper by Sir Isaac Newton is sold at auction to a bookseller's agent and within minutes of leaving the auction house, he is killed and the paper stolen. For the Nazis are desperate to get their hands on a Newton formula that will unleash the Secret Fire - a weapon beyond all imagining that can wipe their enemies off the face of the earth. And this document is the key . . . unless the French Resistance and SOE operatives also on its trail can stop them. New York, 2007. Katherine Reckliss learns her grandmother's SOE radio has started picking up disturbing messages from occupied France, warning that a V1 containing the Secret Fire is being launched by the Nazis. Its target? Present-day London. So begins the desperate race to halt the Secret Fire - both in 1940s Nazi-occupied France and modern-day London. The clock is ticking as history starts to re- write the future in a new and terrifying script . . .
'A race against time and an ancient secret.. full of puzzles and moves at a good lick' Observer 'Splendidly rewarding. One of the strangest and one of the best novels I have read for a very long time' Shots
Martin Langfield has lived in New York since 1999. An Englishman, he has worked as an international journalist for a major news organization for twenty years. His first novel, The Malice Box, is available as a Penguin paperback.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141025070 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141025077 |
| Title | The Secret Fire |
| Author | Martin Langfield |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-04-16 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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