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Once again, Charlie is on the run. Her half brother, Dante, and former agent Milana Moon are also trying to fly beneath the radar, so setting up fake passports. It's not cheap, but then, after Charlie's hacking adventures, she can afford it. This money also allows her to occasionally travel without even needing a passport, but it's always good to have a backup. Unfortunately, too much information is out there about Charlie, some of it because of an unscrupulous analyst. Charlie is following the clues to another puzzle from Einstein's notes, and has traveled to Cambridge, England to follow up on "To find Newton's discovery, turn the tables in the Wren". While in the Wren Library, she runs into a student, Kenji, who is rather cute. Against Dante's advice, she asks him for help with the puzzle. Of course, this goes badly wrong when he takes the next clue and turns out to be the son of Yoshi Yataro, a billionaire also wanting Newton's secrets. Charlie embarks on another odyssey that takes her to London, Germany, Australia, Zion National Park, and eventually Kona, Hawaii, and causes her to find out a lot about the explorer James Cook and his troubled legacy. While I'm not entirely sold on the plausibility of the ending, it is spectacular.