One of the key early scenes in "The Secret Fire" is a 1936 auction at Sotheby's in London of a vast collection of unpublished manuscripts by Sir Isaac Newton, many of them focusing on two topics Newton preferred to keep secret during his lifetime: his unorthodox religious views, and his extensive research into alchemy.
The auction leads to a grisly end for a hapless bookseller's agent, who by buying one of the Newton papers for the British secret service makes himself the target of a Nazi agent c
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