For centuries, the Alchemist’s Gold Theory – the presumed lost formula for creating limitless gold – has haunted history’s most powerful rulers. Emperors died searching for it. Wars were fought over it. Pirates plundered ships hoping to find it. Even renowned scientists sought to unravel the principle. But through the ages, no one was successful, and legend largely fell into the realm of myth . . . until CIA cryptologist Brady Donovan detects and decodes hidden patterns to reveal that the legend is real and tied to the missing pieces of a world-famous artifact buried in the Egyptian sands and uncovered by Napoleon’s army: the Rosetta Stone.
Donovan partners with Egyptologist Teppy Flynn at the British Museum and conspiracy researcher Avery Prophet in the U.S. Only a heartbeat away is a diabolical Silicon Valley tech giant, D’Arcy Lauren Granier, and her henchmen. A global race is on. Donovan must stay ahead of the forces that conspire to kill him and claim the discovery; knowledge that could launch a catastrophic economic weapon upon the world.
History, told in vivid flashbacks, jumps back to 1799 Egypt, and forward through the hundreds of years since, with pirates and presidents in on the search, for better or worse, for the secret to the Alchemist’s Gold Theory. Now present day, Brady Donovan fights against the fast- ticking clock, relentless bad guys, and a Category 5 hurricane to where past meets present and greed and betrayal become deadly partners.
