The Last Latitude

His mother died mapping a place the world agreed to forget. Then he found twelve pixels that should not be there.

For six years, Leo Vasquez has watched the same twelve pixels flicker on a satellite map of Antarctica. Nobody can explain them. No agency will admit they are there. And they sit a short flight from the station where his mother, a cartographer who spent her life charting the continent, died with her last discovery unspoken.

Now he has finally reached McMurdo. And the flicker is not noise, and it is not error. The pattern under the ice has held for exactly as long as his mother has been dead.

What the pattern guards is older than every story we tell about ourselves, and the machinery built to keep it buried has had six decades of practice.

With five others thrown together by chance, and a truth his mother died protecting, Leo has one chance to reach the last latitude before the men who erase things reach him.

For readers of Blake Crouch and Dan Brown: a propulsive conspiracy thriller built on real history, real places, and one impossible discovery at the bottom of the world.

ADVANCE PRAISE
"His world and character building are top tier."  – Leigh, two-time Readers' Choice Award winner
 
"A gripping and atmospheric thriller that hooked me from the beginning."  – Jamie O'Leary, Advance Reader
 
"This is one of the better debut novels I have read. In my top 10 debut novels for certain."  – Steven R. McEvoy, Book Reviews and More
 
"If thrillers are your usual genre, you need to read it. If this is outside of your usual genre, still read it."  – Leigh, two-time Readers' Choice Award winner
 
"At its best when the strange mystery is connected to very human things: loss, loyalty, courage, memory, and the fear of being left behind."  – Rev. Charles Rushing
 
"There was always another question waiting around the corner."  – Aster Saunders, Author
 
"Rooted in actual occurrences and places."  – Rich of CymruBoyosBookBlog