DescriptionMurder, sunken treasure, and pirates both ancient and modern send Doc Ford on a nightmare quest in this New York Times bestseller in Randy Wayne Whites thrilling series. Marine biologist Doc Ford has been known to help his friends out of jams occasionally, but hes never faced a situation like this. His old pal Carl Fitzpatrick has been chasing sunken wrecks most of his life, but now hes run afoul of the Florida Division of Historical Resources. Its director, Leonard Nickelby, despises amateur archaeologists, which is bad enough, but now he and his young assistant have disappeared--along with Fitzpatricks impounded cache of rare Spanish coins and the list of uncharted wreck sites Fitz spent decades putting together. Some of Fitzs own explorations have been a little...dicey, so he cant go to the authorities. Doc is his only hope. But greed makes people do terrible things: rob, cheat, even kill. With stakes this high, theres no way the thieves will go quietly--and Docs just put himself in their crosshairs.About the authorThis is Randy Wayne Whites twenty-fifth Doc Ford book, after Mangrove Lightning and Deep Blue. He has also had four collections of his columns for Outside magazine and elsewhere published, as well as the Hannah Smith novels Gone, Deceived, Haunted, and Seduced. In 2002, a one-hour documentary film called The Gift of the Game, about Whites trip to Cuba to find the remnants of the Little League teams founded by Ernest Hemingway in the days before Castro, won the Best of the Fest Award from the 2002 Woods Hole Film Festival, then was broadcast by PBS in 2003. A veteran fishing guide who at one time had his own local PBS show, he lives in an old house on an Indian mound in Pineland, Florida.