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The Chola Cipher
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 8 2026
Pages: 422
Weight: 0.97
Height: 1.05 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Nine hundred years of silence. One inscription that was never meant to be found.
When Dr. Aryan Karthik's pattern-recognition software flags an anomaly in a routine temple documentation project, he uncovers something that should have stayed buried - a Katapayadi cipher hidden inside a devotional verse, carved in stone by a conscience-stricken royal treasurer who witnessed a murder he could never speak aloud.
What begins as an academic puzzle spirals into a lethal conspiracy. The cipher doesn't just point to a medieval assassination - it threatens the present-day political dynasty sitting at the heart of Tamil Nadu's power. The Azhwarappan family has waited nine centuries to keep this secret. They will not let one cryptographer destroy everything.
As allies are compromised and bodies pile up, Aryan edges closer to a truth far more devastating than betrayal: the greatest empire the ancient world ever knew may have been built not in glory - but in guilt.
The stone has kept its silence long enough.
Decode it before they silence you.
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