The Shining Ones (Codex Ogmios)

CODE OF THE INCAS

Jude Lethe is the ghost in the machine—the brilliant shadow who ensures the Ogmios Directive Special Ops team remains invisible to the world. While operatives like Noah Larkin risk their lives in the field, Lethe works his magic from behind multiple screens, providing the digital edge that keeps the team alive.

He never signed up for fieldwork. He never wanted it.

When Professor Camila Morais—an old friend of Sir Charles Wyndham—loses key members of her archaeological team to a brazen kidnapping at Lima airport, Lethe reluctantly finds himself deployed to Peru. It’s supposed to be simple tech support with Noah Larkin as his protection.

Nothing is ever simple.

Deep in the unforgiving Andes mountains lies an ancient Inca city shrouded in myth—and coveted by forces willing to spill oceans of blood to claim its secrets. A terrorist organization everyone thought defeated has reemerged from the shadows: The Shining Path. Their plan, decades in the making, will bring Peru to its knees and set a continent ablaze.

When Noah vanishes and communications go dark, Lethe finds himself trapped in a nightmare. No backup. No extraction. No hope.

His only ally? The enigmatic granddaughter of a Nazi war criminal with her own shadowy agenda.

Armed with nothing but his keyboard and intellect, the man who was never meant to leave his desk must now navigate deadly jungle terrain and outmaneuver ruthless killers. The clock is ticking toward catastrophe, and the greatest weapon the terrorists could hope for isn’t hidden in any lost city—it’s the digital secrets locked inside Jude Lethe’s exceptional mind.

The world needs a hero. They got a hacker instead.