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Also by William Dietrich:

The Barbed Crown, May 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Blood Of The Reich, February 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Blood Of The Reich, July 2011
Hardcover
The Barbary Pirates, April 2011
Paperback
The Barbary Pirates, March 2010
Hardcover
The Dakota Cipher, February 2010
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
The Dakota Cipher, April 2009
Hardcover
The Rosetta Key, February 2009
Mass Market Paperback
The Rosetta Key, April 2008
Hardcover
Napoleon's Pyramids, January 2008
Mass Market Paperback
Napoleon's Pyramids, February 2007
Hardcover
The Scourge Of God, January 2006
Mass Market Paperback
Hadrian's Wall, March 2005
Mass Market Paperback

THE DAKOTA CIPHER
By: William Dietrich

Ethan Gage #3
Harper
April 2009
On Sale: April 1, 2009
Featuring: Ethan Gage; Magnus Bloodhammer; Aurora Somerset
352 pages
ISBN: 0061568007
EAN: 9780061568008
Hardcover
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Mystery Historical

Ethan Gage, the hero of Napoleon's Pyramids and The Rosetta Key, just wants to enjoy the fruits of victory after helping Napoleon win the Battle of Marengo and end an undeclared naval war with the United States.

But a foolish tryst with Bonaparte's married sister and the improbable schemes of a grizzled Norwegian named Magnus Bloodhammer soon send Ethan on a new treasure hunt on America's frontier that will have him dodging scheming aristocrats and hostile Indians.

In 1801 newly elected president Thomas Jefferson, taking office in the burgeoning capital of Washington, D.C., convinces Ethan and Magnus to go on a scouting expedition— one that precedes that of Lewis and Clark—to investigate reports of woolly mammoths and blue-eyed Indians.

The pair have their own motive, however, which they neglect to share with the president: a search for the mythical hammer of the Norse god Thor, allegedly brought by fugitive Norsemen to the center of North America 150 years before Columbus. Can the hammer control thunder and lightning? Is there a core of truth to this myth?

Ethan's journey takes him across the Great Lakes to country no white man has seen, but not before he becomes entangled with a British temptress, a comely captive, a French voyageur, and a landscape as breathtaking as it is perilous.

Ancient Norse runes will lead him to his most fantastic discovery yet—and to wonder, danger, mystery, and sorrow that will test every ounce of wit and skill Gage can muster. The Dakota Cipher is another exciting adventure by a writer who has quickly become one of America's most beloved and inventive thriller masterminds.