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Abaco
Gold: The Maravilla
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David C. Corbett |
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Pages:
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276
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ISBN:
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1-59858-072-8
(paperback)
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List Price:
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$16.95 Paperback
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Category:
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Fiction |
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Available:
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December 2005 |
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Edition:
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Paperback |
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Product Details:
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In 1656, a Spanish ship sinks under less than usual circumstances,
and certainly not where treasure hunters of today expect. Where
is the final resting place of the Maravilla, along with the gold,
silver, and emeralds her hold contains? A Florida antique dealer,
Ted Brewer, quite by accident finds a sketch with the necessary
clues to the old ship’s location.
Unfortunately for him there is another who realizes Brewer is
holding the key to a vast fortune, and is willing to brutalize
and kill him for that information. Brewer, however, has insured
the safety of his secret by sending half the sketch to his sister,
Jennifer, and the remaining half to his old and trusted Marine
Corps buddy, Jake Bottom. Jake, since his retirement from the
Corps, has become an expatriated American, living on a houseboat
in the Bahamas. His biggest problem, on any given day, is whether
or not to leave his hammock and go sailing on his forty-one foot
sloop, or just swing in his hammock out of the sun. Jake and Jennifer
team up to solve the mystery of the two halves of the map and
along with a reprobate friend of his, Mike Flynn, the three sail
in search of riches. Cortez, a Columbian drug lord, has killed
once for the sketch, and is not hesitant to do so again.
With dogged determination, he hunts the three, as they attempt
to keep him blind to their actions. No matter their precautions,
Jennifer is nonetheless kidnapped by Cortez and taken prisoner
aboard his luxurious yacht. Jake, who has become completely infatuated
with his recent lady companion, and Flynn must somehow retrieve
Jennifer, yet not lose their claim to the fortune awaiting them.
The plan is complex. Using every bit of his sailing skills, and
along with Flynn’s expertise with demolitions, the two leap
into the breech with little real chance of complete success.
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About The Author:
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Dave Corbett grew up in the small, west coast, Florida town of Venice,
where his love for sailing and boats in general began. After graduation
from the University of Florida, he joined the United States Marine
Corps, which he retired a full bird colonel. During his twenty-eight
years of flying fighter jets, he commanded five organizations including
a Harrier squadron, a Support Group, and a Marine Air Ground Task
Force. Upon his retirement, in 1990, he lived his dream aboard a
41-foot sloop, sailing the winter months in the Bahama Islands for
thirteen years.Corbett now resides, with his wife Donna, in Backus,
MN during the summer and Lake Placid, FL when the snow flies up
north.
Author's Note:
Of interest, the Maravilla was a “real honest-to-goodness”
Spanish galleon. She is thought to have sunk, during a major storm,
somewhere along Little Bahama Bank. Treasure hunters have been
searching for her since she disappeared in 1656, with little or
no luck.
Artist, J. Kelly, painted a large mural of the Maravilla sometime
in the mid eighties. I have a lithograph copy of that art piece
hanging on my living room wall. The picture depicts a single galleon
on a storm tossed sea. What is unique about this artist’s
rendition is that the Maravilla is sailing “alone.”
Treasure galleons NEVER sailed alone. Huge flotillas of as many
as five hundred ships sailed together to and from Spain. This
picture gave me the idea of what might have really happened to
the Maravilla and where she might have sailed to safely hide.
And so, "Abaco Gold, The Maravilla Connection" was contrived.
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