DAVE BARTELL
Signal Code
Some languages shouldn't be spoken.
Mysterious carvings found in Antarctica suggest humans lived there in Neolithic times. Archaeologist Darwin Lacroix uncovers an impossible truth: identical symbols appear in central France and Tibet. A sealed Vatican document suggests the inscriptions belong to a primordial language—possibly the tongue from which all human thought descends.
Valentín Reiter, leader of a Heilige Stürm, a Nazi fringe group that escaped justice, believes the markings are the lost language of the Hyperboreans, mythical forebears of the Aryan race. He sees them as a way to summon a higher order of being. To prepare the world for a new Reich.
When NASA detects a transmission pulsing from beneath the Antarctic shelf, Darwin and Reiter's paths collide. The signal is ancient, recursive, and intelligent.
And it's awakening.
★★★★★ "Signal Code grabbed me from the very first chapter and never let go. Dave Bartell has a talent for building tension that feels almost cinematic." — Marilyn
★★★★★ "Bartell's archaeological books are so exciting and full of geographical history. So fun to read. Cannot wait for the next one." — Shelly Geier
★★★★★ "I read a lot of different archeological thriller series and Darwin Lacroix is one of the best." — Theresa
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