Once Upon a Reef

by Chap Harper

Overview

In September of 2007 Chris Zacharius and three other divers recovered a single engine plane from the restricted dive waters of the Silver Banks between the Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It was loaded with valuables that had belonged to the dictator Rafael Trujillo. In 1961 Trujillo could feel the hot breath of his countrymen on his back and knowing the end was near, he was moving his assets to a nearby island. This was a valuable find for Chris and his fellow divers Mit Kruger, Gretchen Viertbauer, and Angel Dominguez. They quickly found that this discovery was small compared to a three billion treasure hidden somewhere in the Dominican Republic. The quest for this huge fortune takes the group to the mountains of the Dominican Republic, to Haiti during a rebel war, and to a cave to rescue one of their group kidnapped by an army of drug smugglers led by Jon Jon Vieux who practices the evil version of voodoo. The story is an epic adventure that is fun, sexy, explosive, and blends historical facts into legendary fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781478380634
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	08/07/2012
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Chap Harper is a master scuba diver and for over thirty years he has found the Caribbean to be his favorite place to get wet. Having owned ocean front property in the Dominican Republic, he enjoys a comfort lelvel with the country and her people. Chap also has a small Placer gold claim in the Sierras of Northern California so mining techniques have always beena favorite subject for him. The novel was his first and was written in 2007. It laid on the shelf until he decided to pull it out and get it ready for publication. Chap lives on a lake in Hot Springs, Arkansas with his wife Susan and a large collection of palms trees which he says remind him of the Caribbean.