Four thrilling quests for hidden fortunes, from the streets of Paris and Baltimore to a flooded Montana mine and the storm-tossed Atlantic, where gold, cash and diamonds draw desperate people into deadly games.
THE VIOLENT ONES by E. Howard Hunt
Fresh out of prison, Paul Cameron heads straight to Paris to find a lost shipment of gold secretly brought into France by the United States during World War II to finance the Resistance. The moment he arrives, the hunt for the missing fortune plunges him into intrigue, violence and murder.
DEADHEAD by Charles Warren
On Christmas Eve, 1949, a battered man wakes on the streets of Baltimore with no memory of who he is. Mobsters are convinced his amnesia is a lie and that he knows the secret of a missing $300,000 fortune. Hunted from every direction, he must recover his past before the men chasing the money kill him.
DROWNED MAN’S LODE by Robert McCaig
A fortune in gold lies underwater inside a flooded Montana mine. Engineer Mike Kendall is hired to tunnel into the mountain and drain it, but the dangerous job becomes even deadlier when powerful enemies reveal that they will do anything to keep the gold exactly where it is.
KILLERS AT SEA by Jon Messmann
Sea-faring man-of-action Logan finds a murdered man on a South Carolina beach and is pulled into a violent mystery involving hidden treasure, diamonds and a relentless band of killers. His search carries him and the dead man’s headstrong niece out to sea, straight into the fury of an epic hurricane.
Charles Warren, E. Howard Hunt, Jon Messmann, Robert McCaig /
Adventure, Anthologies, Crime Fiction
