Bibliograph

Type

Label

The Dakota cipher, an Ethan Gage adventure, William Dietrich

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The Dakota cipher

Oclc number

232978206

Responsibility statement

William Dietrich

Series statement

Ethan Gage adventure, 03

Sub title

an Ethan Gage adventure

Summary

Ethan Gage 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 convinces Ethan and Magnus to go on a scouting expedition 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 Thor, allegedly brought by fugitive Norsemen to the center of North America 150 years before Columbus. 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 at breathtaking as it is perilous

Target audience

adult

Creator