Chris Kuzneski

A young woman discovers a puzzling messsage written in a series of codes and ancient languages. When she takes it to the University of Pittsburgh to seek out Jonathan Payne and David Jones for help decipering it, their meeting is interrupted by an assassin who was sent to kill everyone who knows about the document. When the prophetic writings of 16th century apothecary Nostradamus begin to ring alarming true, the two find themselves in a life-or-death...

Jonathon Payne and D. J. Jones, former members of a top secret, very special unit of the armed forces, race to recover a lost treasure that could rewrite history, before it is destroyed by a group of men who will stop at nothing to conceal the secret.

After being vanquished by the Spanish empire, little remains of the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. From the ashes of their cities emerged a unified legend: Their conquerors possessed a mysterious artifact so powerful - so deadly - that it was universally known as the "Death Relic." When archaeologist Maria Pelati's research team disappears in the rugged terrain of the Yucatan Peninsula, she contacts Jonathon Payne and David Jones to help track them...