βThe Dakota Cipher is a supple, elegant thriller that carries the reader triumphantly from one exciting climax to the next.β
βSteve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key
Ethan Gage is a fearless adventurer who has crossed paths (and, sometimes, swords) with the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklinβand whose unabashed derring do puts even Indiana Jones to shame. Now Gage is back for a third time in William Dietrichβs The Dakota Cipher, an ingenious page-turner that carries our hero to the American wilderness in search of an almost unthinkably powerful ancient artifact. No stranger to thrilling action himself, New York Times bestseller James Rollins, author of Black Order, The Last Oracle, and Altar of Eden, is a dedicated fan of Dietrichβs Ethan Gage novels, and proclaims that, βThe Dakota Cipher should be read by anyone who loves adventure at its grandest.β
William Dietrich is the author of fourteen novels, including six previous Ethan Gage titlesβNapoleon's Pyramids, The Rosetta Key, The Dakota Cipher, The Barbary Pirates, The Emerald Storm, and The Barbed Crown. Dietrich is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian, and naturalist. A winner of the PNBA Award for Nonfiction, he lives in Washington State.