{"product_id":"the-golden-codex-christian-e-bannard-9781764513036","title":"The Golden Codex","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen people are dying for ancient secrets, who can you trust?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe race for El Dorado is on and only the ruthless will survive.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christian E. Bannard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1764513037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781764513036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bannard Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.03d","brand":"Christian E. Bannard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874578149631,"sku":"9781764513036","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-golden-codex-christian-e-bannard-9781764513036","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}