An Ethan Gage Adventure, #3
Harper
February 2010
On Sale: February 1, 2010
Featuring: Ethan Gage
352 pages ISBN: 0061568082 EAN: 9780061568084 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
William Dietrich is back with another fast-paced new
adventure—one that brings together Norse mythology, the
American wilderness, and a swashbuckling explorer in an
irresistible page-turner.
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.
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