Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams's fourth pulse-pounding adventure featuring the enigmatic Daniel Knox.After the unscrupulous Georgian oligarch Ilya Nergadze places a bounty on his head, Daniel Knox becomes a marked man and is forced to build himself a new identity and career in marine salvage. His search for a legendary Chinese ship, reputed to be laden with fabulous quantities of treasure, leads Knox to the Madagascan coast. However, the trail is a dead-end and the local publicity brings Knox unwanted attention, especially when Nergadze becomes suspicious and sends assassins to ascertain whether it is Knox and, if it is, to kill him.Meanwhile, when TV zoologist Rebecca Kirkpatrick's estranged father and sister are kidnapped from their Madagascan home, the Eden Nature Reserve, Rebecca flies straight home to try to find them. Knox, however, feels that his next job - to salvage a cache of silver from the reefs of the Eden Nature Reserve - may have been the reason for their disappearance and decides to investigate. When the ransom delivery goes wrong, Rebecca also begins to wonder whether there's more to the kidnapping than meets the eye, and whether her father had discovered a far greater treasure than just a hoard of silver pieces-of-eight.With enemies and rivals closing in, Knox and Rebecca must form an uneasy alliance as they search the stormy seas for the truth and a treasure trove that would rewrite the history of the New World.
