Signal Code

By

Dave Bartell
Some languages weren’t meant to be spoken.
Signal Code

By

Dave Bartell

Some languages weren’t meant to be spoken.

When archaeologist Darwin Lacroix discovers identical carvings in Antarctica, France, and Tibet, he unearths a chilling truth: the symbols are a primordial language—possibly the source of all human thought.

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. A way to summon a higher order. Prepare the world for a new Reich.

But Darwin uncovers a darker reality. The language doesn’t shape ideas—it unravels consciousness.

When NASA detects a signal pulsing beneath the Antarctic shelf, Darwin and Reiter’s paths collide. The signal is ancient. Recursive. Intelligent. And it’s awakening.

Signal Code is a chilling archaeological thriller that pits myth against science, language against sanity, and the fate of humanity against something that doesn’t just want to be heard—it wants to overwrite us.

About the Author

Dave Bartell writes archaeology with a pulse. His thrillers transform lost tombs, forbidden relics, and buried knowledge into modern biohazards and global threats. With a background in biochemistry and a career in tech, Dave brings scientific rigor and a hacker’s curiosity to every story, crafting fast-paced adventures that feel one bad decision away from reality. His fiction is grounded, dangerous, and rooted in the question: what if this were true? Dave lives in Los Gatos, California, hiking the hills that border Silicon Valley and plotting the next ancient mystery ready to erupt into the present.

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