Contact: William Dietrich, Huxley College of the Environment, (360) 650-3364, or e-mail William.Dietrich@wwu.edu.
BELLINGHAM - Adventurer Ethan Gage returns in Western Washington University Assistant Professor William Dietrich's latest historical thriller, "The Dakota Cipher," published by HarperCollins on Mar. 22
"The Dakota Cipher" is Dietrich's third Napoleonic-era book starring Ethan Gage, a self-deprecating, womanizing, swashbuckling explorer and jack-of-all-trades with a penchant for dubious choices, saving the world and meeting historical figures such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Thomas Jefferson. Ethan's latest adventure takes him across France, Italy and America in a perilous treasure hunt for an ancient Norse artifact mysteriously hidden deep in the American frontier.
"I'm hoping readers find 'The Dakota Cipher' an enjoyable, fast-paced romp that also teaches a great deal about the period in which our modern age began," Dietrich said.
Novels in Dietrich's Ethan Gage series, starting with 2007's "Napoleon's Pyramids" and 2008's "The Rosetta Key," have been published in 28 languages.
Dietrich, a WWU graduate and assistant professor of Environmental Journalism, is an accomplished journalist and author. He has published eight works of fiction and three works of non-fiction. His first book, "The Final Forest" (1992), grew out of his reporting on the spotted owl and old growth forest debate; in 1990, Dietrich was part of a four-person team at The Seattle Times that won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
For more information, visit www.williamdietrich.com.
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