Length8h 6m
About this audiobook
When evidence historian Elias Voss receives a mysterious package from Adrian Vale—his mentor, missing for six years and legally declared dead—he is pulled into a mystery spanning Oxford, Türkiye, Crete, and the depths of the North Sea.
With archaeologist Dr. Leyla Demir at his side, Voss follows a trail of ancient artifacts, encrypted clues, compromised records, and a recurring symbol: ◉. But the deeper they investigate, the more disturbing the pattern becomes.
Someone isn't trying to destroy the truth. They're destroying the evidence that allows anyone to prove it.
To fight back, Voss develops the First Cipher: four questions—TIME, ORDER, LOCATION, WITNESS—that may expose how history itself can be manipulated.
A globe-spanning conspiracy thriller about archaeology, technology, trust, and the dangerous difference between knowing something is true and being able to prove it.
**The First Cipher** is the first novel in **The Lantern Protocol Series** by Shannon W. Bray.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, Mystery and Thriller
Length8 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue — The Sky Remembers
20Chapter 19 — Below
2Chapter 1 — The Dead Mans Photograph
21Chapter 20 — The Flooded Map
3Chapter 2 — The Fifth Measurement
22Chapter 21 — Carrier
4Chapter 3 — Pillar 43
23Chapter 22 — The Civilization That Never Existed
5Chapter 4 — Prediction
24Chapter 23 — The First Cipher
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6Chapter 5 — Sanliurfa
25Chapter 24 — Adrian Vale
7Chapter 6 — The Buried Edge
26Chapter 25 — Severance
8Chapter 7 — The Cistern
27Chapter 26 — The Ledger
9Chapter 8 — Two Witnesses
28Chapter 27 — Rook Is Not The Redactor
10Chapter 9 — The Edge
29Chapter 28 — The North Sea
11Chapter 10 — The Disc
30Chapter 29 — The Coordinate
12Chapter 11 — Five Dots
31Chapter 30 — Below
13Chapter 12 — Structural Marks
32Chapter 31 — Black Water
14Chapter 13 — Marcus Thorne
33Chapter 32 — What Survived
15Chapter 14 — Vales Rule
34Chapter 33 — Vales Last Lesson
16Chapter 15 — Linear A
35Chapter 34 — Redaction
17Chapter 16 — The Palace
36Chapter 35 — Lantern
18Chapter 17 — The Missing Shadow
37Chapter 36 — The Drowned Archive
19Chapter 18 — Rook
38Epilogue — Redundancy
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