The Golden Codex

By Christian E Bannard

When people are dying for ancient secrets, who can you trust?

Dr. Elena Vasquez's world shatters when her mentor is found strangled in a library, a rosary wound tight around his throat. Only hours earlier, he'd sent photographs of a discovery that shouldn't exist-hidden text in a Maya manuscript revealing a map connecting civilizations separated by thousands of miles and five centuries of lies.

The map points to fragments of a legendary Codex of Seven Serpents. It is apparently the truth behind El Dorado; knowledge so dangerous that Maya priests, Spanish friars and the indigenous ancestors conspired across generations to keep it hidden.

Now Elena must race from Chicago to the highlands of Guatemala and beyond, pursued by a former Nazi researcher who has hunted this secret for sixty years. Her only ally, a Venezuelan billionaire whose obsession with El Dorado rivals the Nazis and whose ruthlessness may be just as deadly.

Some secrets were meant to stay forgotten, but in a world where satellite imaging penetrates jungle canopies and infrared scanners reveal what was hidden for centuries, nothing stays buried forever.

The race for El Dorado is on and only the ruthless will survive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1764513037
• ISBN13: 9781764513036
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Bannard Publishing
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher