Antonio & Isaac: The Annotated Account of Phillipe Wolf Composer & Spy

In this genre-bending speculative historical novel set in Europe at the height of the Age of Enlightenment Austrian composer and spy Phillipe Wolf sets off an incendiary clash between Isaac Newton and Antonio Stradivari over how to create a perfect violin. Can science and mathematics alone be enough? Or is it a much deeper knowledge that Stradivari will take to his grave? In love with Newtons niece Catherine Barton Wolf and Barton compose a perfect score for a perfect violin while Wolf spies on her jealous employer infiltrates a violent counterfeiting ring and leads a surprise attack inside the enemys fortified citadel. On every page there is surprise insight and suspense and in the end perhaps solves the enduring mystery of why 300-year-old Stradivarius violins remain the most revered. With several Newtonesque drawings by the author.