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Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire

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A billion-dollar shipwreck. A determined treasure hunter. A vast ocean floor. From the author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth, a gripping true historical adventure and the thrilling quest to recover one of the Spanish Empire’s lost treasures.

The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silver—and one man’s obsessive quest to find it—from the New York Times bestselling author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth

“Splendid . . . Sancton is an expert guide through eighteenth-century European geopolitics [and] modern marine archaeology.”—The Wall Street Journal

Roger Dooley wasn’t looking for the San José. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of...

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