Dead Man Cipher: A Jack Kenyon Mystery

by Gordon Cope

FBI AGENT JACK KENYON is squaring off against one of his most intractable foes.Dev Patek, a renowned nuclear physicist, has been found lifeless in his backyard. All evidence points to suicide, until a letter arrives at Kenyon’s desk, to be delivered only after Patek’s untimely death. But the dead man letter is in code, a cipher that requires the use of a mysterious manuscript to crack it. The message may reveal who killed Patek, or something far more sinister.As Jack pursues Dev’s murder, he begins to uncover a comprehensive scheme to steal one of the world’s most valuable secrets, the blueprint to Baron Feargus Morgan’s nuclear engine.Follow Jack from San Francisco to London as he pursues a host of spies, murderers and kidnappers who will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.

285 pages, Paperback

Published July 14, 2020

About the author

Gordon Cope has been a professional writer for over 30 years, working as a report at the Calgary Herald and as an international correspondent for major journals in Canada, the US and the UK. He was a finalist for the W.O. Mitchell Award for his debut travel memoir, A Paris Moment, and a silver medal IPPY award winner for his debut mystery novel, Secret Combinations. He currently lives in southern Mexico, and loves to travel the world with his wife Linda. His latest mystery novel, Triple Cross, features much-acclaimed FBI agent Jack Kenyon and the thrilling exploits that take him from San Francisco to Paris and London.