As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone
was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the
North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks
his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files.
What he learns stuns him: His father’s sub was a secret
nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission beneath
the ice shelves of Antarctica.
But Malone isn’t the only one after the truth.
Twin sisters Dorothea Lindauer and Christl Falk are
fighting for the fortune their mother has promised to
whichever of them discovers what really became of their
father–who died on the same submarine that Malone’s father
captained.
The sisters know something Malone doesn’t: Inspired by
strange clues discovered in Charlemagne’s tomb, the Nazis
explored Antarctica before the Americans, as long ago as
1938. Now Malone discovers that cryptic journals penned
in “the language of heaven,” inscrutable conundrums posed
by an ancient historian, and the ill-fated voyage of his
father are all tied to a revelation of immense consequence
for humankind.
In an effort to ensure that this explosive information
never rises to the surface, Langford Ramsey, an ambitious
navy admiral, has begun a brutal game of treachery,
blackmail, and assassination. As Malone embarks on a
dangerous quest with the sisters–one that leads them from
an ancient German cathedral to a snowy French citadel to
the unforgiving ice of Antarctica–he will finally confront
the shocking truth of his father’s death and the distinct
possibility of his own.
In doing our genealogies, my husband and I found out we both had Charlemange as something like a 10 or 12X great grandfather. My husband was from the 2nd wife and me from the 3rd wife. We are lucky our children didn't have 6 fingers and toes! (Lori Callaway 1:12pm January 22, 2009)
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