The Code

For countless epochs, the truth about human evolution remained a secret.

Until…

Geophysicist Jack Greer believes he has finally discovered the location of the remains of a meteorite that sixty-five million years ago erased the dinosaurs from the face of the Earth. A few miles off the Yucatán coast in the Gulf of Mexico, Jack and a group of researchers under his direction use an old floating drilling rig to extract samples of materials from the bottom of an underwater crater formed by the impact of a celestial body. However, beneath both the water and the land surface awaits an incredible discovery capable of overturning everything we thought we knew about who we are and where we came from.

Far from this place, geneticist Dr. Mia Ward receives a mysterious package from Alan Salzberg, her former boss and mentor. Inside is a key to a terrifying prophecy encrypted in the human genome—one that predicts the demise of humanity.

The instructions accompanying the package are simple: keep the information secret and trust no one. Alan’s sudden death gives his final instruction special weight. Who is the author of the prophecy, and what does it mean? The answers are in Jack Greer’s hands—but will Mia have time to reach him? The fate of the human race now depends on it.