Fear is the Key Author:Alistair MacLean Finders keepers with the exception of the British frigate De Braak, sunk in a storm off the coast of Delaware in 1798, it was the biggest underwater treasure in the Western Hemisphere: Ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds, locked in the fuselage of a DC-3, lying half buried on the ocean ... more »floor and guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy.
The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blueblooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a hood so cold and independant that even the Mafia couldn't do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin.
Against them stood one man, and those were his people, those skeletons in their watery coffin. His name was Talbot, and he would bury his dead -- but only after he had avenged their murders.« less