The Washington Cipher
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The Washington Cipher
Sale price
$21.99
Regular price $26.99
A secret buried before liberty. A conspiracy that could destroy it.
When forensic investigator Derek Starr accepts a routine commission at a colonial estate in Annapolis, he expects portraits and plaster ceilings. What he finds — hidden inside a two-hundred-year-old picture frame — changes everything.
A concealed document. A cipher with no key. And a single line in a hand that hasn’t moved in two centuries: “For the Republic, when the Republic needs it.”
As Derek follows the trail — through Philadelphia archives, Revolutionary War graveyards, and a hidden tunnel beneath Valley Forge — he begins to understand what he has found: the last safeguard of the founders, buried where it would survive any catastrophe, meant only for the moment it was most needed.
But Derek isn’t the only one who has been looking. Victor Ashworth has spent thirty-six years on this trail. He is patient, well-resourced, and prepared to do what is necessary to reach the end of it first.
The founders buried it for a reason. Some men spend a lifetime searching for things that were never meant to be found.
When forensic investigator Derek Starr accepts a routine commission at a colonial estate in Annapolis, he expects portraits and plaster ceilings. What he finds — hidden inside a two-hundred-year-old picture frame — changes everything.
A concealed document. A cipher with no key. And a single line in a hand that hasn’t moved in two centuries: “For the Republic, when the Republic needs it.”
As Derek follows the trail — through Philadelphia archives, Revolutionary War graveyards, and a hidden tunnel beneath Valley Forge — he begins to understand what he has found: the last safeguard of the founders, buried where it would survive any catastrophe, meant only for the moment it was most needed.
But Derek isn’t the only one who has been looking. Victor Ashworth has spent thirty-six years on this trail. He is patient, well-resourced, and prepared to do what is necessary to reach the end of it first.
The founders buried it for a reason. Some men spend a lifetime searching for things that were never meant to be found.