THE BOOKS
They resolve to find a vast treasure, hidden for five hundred years, while also searching for themselves. Can their advanced technical and survival skills enable them to succeed where others have failed?
Most of his life, Billy tried hard to present a laid-back, easygoing personality, but in truth, he was a highly skilled technology executive and treasure hunter, and he knew that he had also committed to becoming a CIA operative.
So to Billy’s disappointment, there would be limited time to relax in the next few weeks, and he was worried about what to do with the dogs while he was in training. Maybe Sheila would live in the house while he was gone and take care of Butch and Baker.
In addition to everything else, Billy had been booked as a guest speaker at an international treasure hunting convention on Miami Beach over the weekend. It was a great opportunity for him to maintain his fame and to continue to receive over $2 million in annual payments from his sponsors.
Even if he did not find treasure for a while, his endorsements would pay for his lifestyle if he kept his reputation and treasure hunting activities in the media. He already had over four million followers on social media thanks to a topflight public relations firm that represented him. He planned to announce his next treasure hunting location at this convention and create a new buzz in the treasure hunting world.
Three separate stories explore deceit, revenge, relationships, and retribution.
In the “Five Hundred Acre Ranch,” a lonely man buys a ranch in Central Florida to share with a beautiful young woman, and they encounter love, hate, and revenge.
“A Family Tale” follows the divergence of two Cuban brothers born in the mid-1800s. One immigrates to Key West, Florida, and the other to Manaus, Brazil. More than a century later, their descendants confront drugs, deceit, revenge, and murder.
“We Can Do It” finds a family unemployed due to COVID-19. Their tranquil camping trip meets with unexpected challenges, punishments, and retribution.
Billy Hartwell and Anne Larsen are again the protagonists in this tale of Mexican drug cartels against a backdrop of the ancient cultures and treasures that still exist in many countries throughout Mesoamerica, including Mexico. The explosion of meth and fentanyl into America is an outrageous evil that is growing every day because those drugs are easy to make, and do not require any soil and water to grow, like marijuana, heroin, or cocaine. Plus, the cartels can buy inexpensive pill making machines which produce thousands of pills per hour that look like harmless prescription medicines, yet when shipped to the USA the profits to the cartels are worth billions. The death toll in America is skyrocketing because there are no controls on the contents of the pills and innocent young people are dying at an unheard-of rate.
Billy is looking for treasure in the ancient ruins and Anne, a CIA agent, is working to stop the drug trafficking. Their work puts them in constant danger with their combined commitment to find treasure and save lives. The story also includes two incredibly talented Beagle dogs that help Billy maintain his reputation as the most famous treasure hunter in the world.
