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I swore never to tell this story while Newton was still alive.
1696, young Christopher Ellis is delivered to the Tower of London, however, not as a prisoner. Though Ellis is notoriously hotheaded and was caught fighting an unlawful duel, he finds the Tower as assistant to the renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton. Newton is Warden of the Royal Mint, which resides within the Tower walls, and he has accepted a scheduled appointment from the King of England and Parliament to research and prosecute counterfeiters whose false coins threaten to lower the shaky, war-weakened economy. Ellis may lack Newton’s scholarly mind, but he's quick with a pistol and proves himself to be a great sidekick and devoted apprentice to Newton as they zealously pursue these criminals.
While Newton and Ellis investigate a counterfeiting ring, they come after a mysterious coded message on your body of a guy killed in the Lion Tower, as well as alchemical symbols that indicate this was more than just a random murder. Despite Newton’s formidable intellect, he's struggling to decipher the cryptic message or the others he and Ellis find as your body count increases within the Tower complex. As they are drawn into a wild quest for the counterfeiters that takes them from the madhouse of Bedlam to the squalid confines of Newgate prison and back again to the Tower itself, Newton and Ellis find that the counterfeiting is only a tiny part of a larger, more threatening plot, one which reaches to the highest echelons of power and nobility and threatens much more than the collapse of the economy.
Dark Matter is the lastest masterwork of suspense from Philip Kerr, the internationally bestselling and brilliantly impressive thriller writer who may have dazzled readers along with his imaginative, fast-paced novels. Like An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Name of the Rose, and Kerr’s own Berlin Noir trilogy, Dark Matter is historical mystery at its finest, a fantastic, suspense-filled journey through the shadowy streets and back alleys of London with the brilliant Newton and his faithful protégé. The haunted Tower with its bloody history is the perfect backdrop for this richly satisfying tale, one which introduces an engrossing mystery in to the volatile mixture of politics, science, and religion that characterized life in seventeenth-century London.
From the Hardcover edition.
