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The Nazca Gamble: A page-turning archaeological thriller
Beneath the Nazca sands, the past engineered a miracle with a catastrophic price tag.
Controversial archaeologist Dyce McCloud follows a trail that begins with a violent strike on his Mexico dig and ends beneath Peru’s famous lines, where a sealed passage answers to the stars. As rivals and hired guns close in, Dyce must solve an ancient system before the wrong hands turn discovery into disaster.
From jungle camps to buried chambers, The Nazca Gamble blends breakneck action with big-idea science, layered history, and puzzles carved in stone. Power brokers circle, a proud old family guards its legacy, and the past refuses to stay buried. Fans of James Rollins, Dan Brown, and Clive Cussler will tear through the pages.
Find out why a million copies of Brandt Legg’s books have been sold/downloaded worldwide. The USA Today bestselling author of The Cosega Sequence.
Controversial archaeologist Dyce McCloud follows a trail that begins with a violent strike on his Mexico dig and ends beneath Peru’s famous lines, where a sealed passage answers to the stars. As rivals and hired guns close in, Dyce must solve an ancient system before the wrong hands turn discovery into disaster.
From jungle camps to buried chambers, The Nazca Gamble blends breakneck action with big-idea science, layered history, and puzzles carved in stone. Power brokers circle, a proud old family guards its legacy, and the past refuses to stay buried. Fans of James Rollins, Dan Brown, and Clive Cussler will tear through the pages.
Find out why a million copies of Brandt Legg’s books have been sold/downloaded worldwide. The USA Today bestselling author of The Cosega Sequence.
332 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 10, 2025
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About the author
Brandt Legg
45 books374 followersUSA TODAY Bestselling Author Brandt Legg uses his unusual real life experiences to create page-turning novels. He’s traveled with CIA agents, dined with senators and congressmen, mingled with astronauts, chatted with governors and presidential candidates, had a private conversation with a Secretary of Defense he still doesn’t like to talk about, hung out with Oscar and Grammy winners, had drinks at the State Department, been pursued by tabloid reporters, and spent a birthday at the White House by invitation from the President of the United States.
At age eight, Legg's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business, and turned a hobby into a multi-million-dollar empire. National media dubbed him the “Teen Tycoon,” and by the mid-eighties, Legg was one of the top young entrepreneurs in America, appearing as high as number twenty-four on the list (when Steve Jobs was #1, Bill Gates #4, and Michael Dell #6). Legg still jokes that he should have gone into computers.
By his twenties, after years of buying and selling businesses, leveraging, and risk-taking, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties. The stock market crashed and a firestorm of trouble came down. The Teen Tycoon racked up more than a million dollars in legal fees, was betrayed by those closest to him, lost his entire fortune, and ended up serving time for financial improprieties.
After a year, Legg emerged from federal prison, chastened and wiser, and began anew. More than twenty-five years later, he’s now using all that hard-earned firsthand knowledge of conspiracies, corruption and high finance to weave his tales. Legg’s books pulse with authenticity.
His series have excited nearly a million readers around the world. Although he refused an offer to make a television movie about his life as a teenage millionaire, his autobiography is in the works. There has also been interest from Hollywood to turn his thrillers into films. With any luck, one day you’ll see your favorite characters on screen.
Legg now writes full time – his favorite endeavor ever! For more information, visit BrandtLegg.com, or to contact Brandt directly, email him: Brandt@BrandtLegg.com, he loves to hear from readers and always responds!
Books by Brandt Legg
CapWar ELECTION (CapStone Conspiracy #1)
CapWar EXPERIENCE (CapStone Conspiracy #2)
CapWar EMPIRE (CapStone Conspiracy #3)
COSEGA SEARCH (Cosega Sequence #1)
COSEGA STORM (Cosega Sequence #2)
COSEGA SHIFT (Cosega Sequence #3)
COSEGA SPHERE (Cosega Sequence #4)
THE LAST LIBRARIAN (Justar Journal #1)
THE LOST TREERUNNER (Justar Journal #2)
THE LIST KEEPERS (Justar Journal #3)
OUTVIEW (Inner Movement #1)
OUTIN (Inner Movement #2)
OUTMOVE (the Inner Movement #3)
Follow Brandt:
Amazon - amazon.com/author/brandtlegg
BookBub - bookbub.com/authors/brandt-legg
Twitter - twitter.com/brandtlegg
Facebook - facebook.com/brandtleggauthor
At age eight, Legg's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business, and turned a hobby into a multi-million-dollar empire. National media dubbed him the “Teen Tycoon,” and by the mid-eighties, Legg was one of the top young entrepreneurs in America, appearing as high as number twenty-four on the list (when Steve Jobs was #1, Bill Gates #4, and Michael Dell #6). Legg still jokes that he should have gone into computers.
By his twenties, after years of buying and selling businesses, leveraging, and risk-taking, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties. The stock market crashed and a firestorm of trouble came down. The Teen Tycoon racked up more than a million dollars in legal fees, was betrayed by those closest to him, lost his entire fortune, and ended up serving time for financial improprieties.
After a year, Legg emerged from federal prison, chastened and wiser, and began anew. More than twenty-five years later, he’s now using all that hard-earned firsthand knowledge of conspiracies, corruption and high finance to weave his tales. Legg’s books pulse with authenticity.
His series have excited nearly a million readers around the world. Although he refused an offer to make a television movie about his life as a teenage millionaire, his autobiography is in the works. There has also been interest from Hollywood to turn his thrillers into films. With any luck, one day you’ll see your favorite characters on screen.
Legg now writes full time – his favorite endeavor ever! For more information, visit BrandtLegg.com, or to contact Brandt directly, email him: Brandt@BrandtLegg.com, he loves to hear from readers and always responds!
Books by Brandt Legg
CapWar ELECTION (CapStone Conspiracy #1)
CapWar EXPERIENCE (CapStone Conspiracy #2)
CapWar EMPIRE (CapStone Conspiracy #3)
COSEGA SEARCH (Cosega Sequence #1)
COSEGA STORM (Cosega Sequence #2)
COSEGA SHIFT (Cosega Sequence #3)
COSEGA SPHERE (Cosega Sequence #4)
THE LAST LIBRARIAN (Justar Journal #1)
THE LOST TREERUNNER (Justar Journal #2)
THE LIST KEEPERS (Justar Journal #3)
OUTVIEW (Inner Movement #1)
OUTIN (Inner Movement #2)
OUTMOVE (the Inner Movement #3)
Follow Brandt:
Amazon - amazon.com/author/brandtlegg
BookBub - bookbub.com/authors/brandt-legg
Twitter - twitter.com/brandtlegg
Facebook - facebook.com/brandtleggauthor
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August 26, 2025
Many unknowns which are exploratorily explained. We are taken on a journey of suppositions leading to factual situations. It is interesting. Brandt opens our mind to his adventurous imagination. It works. The whole experience is magic. We come out better.
September 22, 2025
Wow! What a fantastic story, either through lots of research or a very vivid imagination - I like to think it is a lot of both. Can't wait to see if there will be a sequel to this one.
October 26, 2025
Excellent tale
I've loved every story from the mind of Brandt. This will keep you involved from start to finish. I would love to see this transferred to the big screen. Well done
I've loved every story from the mind of Brandt. This will keep you involved from start to finish. I would love to see this transferred to the big screen. Well done
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