Charlie Thorne, her half brother and his girlfriend just barely escaped from their last adventure with their lives. The CIA think they are traitor and they are keeping a low profile. They have received a clue about one last secret left by one of the world's greatest's minds, Sir Isaac Newton. They don't know what it is, but have heard that it could be dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands. Sir Isaac Newton was a little bit of a recluse, and spent most of his adult life in Cambridge, so that is where Charlie hopes to solve the mystery. Of course, other's have heard rumors about the secret, powerful people who would stop at nothing to find it and exploit it for their own gain. None of them, however, is as brilliant as Charlie, and they soon figure out if they want to win this race, they need to take care of Charlie Thorne first.
This is the last of the Charlie Thorne series. For some reason this series hasn't been as popular as Gibbs' Spy School series, and never came out in audio, so I have waited to read it as a vacation book. Like the Spy School series, this series has a lot of action and humor. The author includes historical facts about the places Charlie visits and the historical figures she investigates, and, admittedly, that slows down the plot a little. Maybe that is why they aren't as popular? I like all the extra historical trivia, but I am a 60 year old humanities buff. It does make this book good supplementary reading if you are a homeschooler and are studying Newton. (432 p. 2025)
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