After months of stumbling through catacombs beneath a New Orleans cemetery, evading alligators at Bayou Teche, dodging a band of fanatics searching for an ancient crystal skull, and tracking down the torch man of two clubs on Austin's Sixth Street, Tony Boudreaux wants a rest. So when a San Antonio client offers a ten-thousand-dollar retainer to find a priceless map hidden in his deceased father's den, Tony takes the job.
To his dismay, the simple task of finding a hidden map explodes into a series of attempts on his life and two murders with over half a dozen suspects, all of whom stand to gain from the map, which is rumored to have been ancient even in the time of Alexander the Great.
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 141 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
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978-1-4778-1218-1 (9781477812181)
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Kent Conwell grew up in the Texas Panhandle in the town of Wheeler, population 848. His love of the West came naturally, for his grandfather ran away from his Tennessee home when he was fourteen to bullwhack his way to the Panhandle. There he met his future wife, who had traveled from Illinois to Texas in a covered wagon. After moving to Fort Worth, where he was more at home in the stockyards than at school, Kent earned a B.S. and began teaching. Later, he moved to Port Neches, where he acquired a M.Ed. and a Ph.D. His love for writing about the West has never waned, because it was the one period unique to American history. He has won short story, screenplay, mystery, and Western fiction awards.
