American Explorer
AMERICAN EXPLORER Book One of the American Explorer Series
When geologist Mark Stone agrees to complete his late daughter's environmental impact study in the Grand Canyon, he expects to find evidence of uranium contamination. What he finds instead will rewrite human history.
Deep in the canyon's most restricted backcountry, a century-old account of an underground cave - dismissed by the Smithsonian Institution for over a hundred years - turns out to be real. The cave contains a self-illuminating corridor carved with impossible precision, a great hall whose ceiling maps the galaxies as they appeared four thousand years ago, and behind sealed vault doors, a mechanism that connects the canyon to ancient Egypt, to a temple in Kerala, India, and to an astronomical event the Hopi people have been tracking for generations.
Mark is not alone in his search. Dr. Alexandra Chaturvedi, an Indian archaeologist who has spent twelve years building toward a conclusion her field is not ready to hear, is following the same evidence from the opposite direction. Nahim, a young Hopi man whose grandmother has been unknowingly painting a map of the cave on ceremonial pottery for sixty years, holds the key neither of them knows they are missing. And somewhere at the edge of all of it, a government agent with a forty-year classified file watches and waits.
American Explorer is a novel about what we owe the dead, what the living are willing to sacrifice for the truth, and what four thousand years of unbroken human memory looks like when it finally arrives at the place it was always pointing.
Told in multiple points of view across four parts, American Explorer blends archaeological thriller, literary fiction, and ancient mystery in the tradition of The Da Vinci Code and Vince Flynn, while standing fully on its own as a work of original literary ambition.
Genre: Archaeological Thriller / Literary Fiction Series: Book One of the American Explorer Series Audience: Adult Fiction
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