A Novel from the NUMA Files - A Kurt Austin Adventure.
On the bottom of the icy sea off Nantucket lies the battered remains of the Italian luxury liner, "Andrea Doria". But few know that within its bowels rests a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity - a treasure that now holds the key to a puzzle that is costing people their lives.
For Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater Marine Association (NUMA) exploration team, the killing begins when he makes a daring rescue of a beautiful marine archaeologist. The target of a powerful Texas industrialist named Halcon, Nina Kirov was attacked off the coast of Morocco after her discovery of a carved stone head that may prove Christopher Columbus was not the first European to discover America. Soon Kurt and Nina embark on a deadly mission to uncover Halcon's masterful plan.
With Austin's elite NUMA crew attacking the murderous conspiracy from different sides, it emerges that Columbus may have mad a fifth, unknown voyage to American in search of a magnificent treasure.
