New PDF release: La Salle's Ghost

By Miles Arceneaux

Drifting silently at the water approximately 40 nautical miles off the Texas coast, Charlie Sweetwater sits aboard his boat, by myself together with his techniques, whilst from the darkness he hears a guy swimming towards him. yet not only any guy. His identify is Julien Dufay, the rich French scion of a family-owned petrochemical dynasty situated in Houston. Charlie plucks the exhausted Frenchman from the Gulf of Mexico and offers him again to his rarified international. yet in fact, no sturdy deed ever is going unpunished.  

 

As Charlie is drawn deeper into Julien’s erratic orbit, he discovers a guy possessed. Dufay is fed on by means of his imaginative and prescient of studying the location of castle Saint Louis: the famed—and doomed—17th century cost of French explorer, Robert Cavelier de l. a. Salle.

 

Thanks to Julien, and his personal stressed interest, Charlie is pulled right into a internet of obsession, homicide and greed. Julien desires to locate los angeles Salle’s long-lost colony (and the treasure of artifacts buried with it) as a legacy for himself, his relatives and the better glory of France. however the project’s bold sponsor, Jean-Marc Dufay, is hell-bent on getting on the wealthy usual fuel assets hidden underneath the location, no matter if it potential utilizing his personal brother as a pawn to feed his goals. status within the manner is the obdurate previous guy on whose South Texas ranch Julien and Jean-Marc are converging, with his trio of scurrilous sons, who've their very own covert agenda—an time table that may be deadly to outsiders.

 

Charlie struggles to make experience of all of it, with assistance from the gorgeous marine archeologist who's excavating los angeles Salle’s shipwreck La Belle in close by Matagorda Bay. yet as he digs deeper into Julien Dufay’s danger-fraught quest, he discovers that historical past has a fashion of repeating itself, and that a few ghosts simply will not remain buried.

 


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