The Severed Cord

A bundle of knotted cords is more than it seems… much more.

Amaru Quispe was raised in a line of khipukamayuq — the hereditary knot-keepers who once held the memory of an empire in dyed and knotted string. He is also a data scientist who teaches machines to read those knots.

When illegal logging collapses a slope above Peru’s Sacred Valley, it tears open a tomb that was sealed before the Spanish ever reached the mountains.

Inside hangs a khipu unlike any in the record — hundreds of cords, the knots on each not making sense. Unless it was a key…

But he’s not the only person looking to see what the key unlocks…

For readers of James Rollins, Clive Cussler, and Dan Brown, The Severed Cord is the sixth standalone adventure in The Atlas Conspiracy Cycle — a globe-spanning saga of buried knowledge and the shadow network determined to keep it buried. Every book stands on its own. Together, they uncover a conspiracy as old as history itself.