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Fueled by mystery, grit, glory, and sandwiches, three modern-day teens uncover America’s history and forgotten treasures one adventure at a time. The hunters are Ben Prescott, 18—The researcher, the mystic, the trailblazer. Porter Rockwell, 17—The man of action, the social glue. And Latch McRae, 17—The mechanic, the gear man, the straight-shooter.
The Hunt is On!
During a raucous Fourth of July fireworks battle, the trio stumbles onto a lost Confederate blockade-runner. Locked inside: a rusted safe, a sealed pouch, and the first lead to a vanished fortune in Confederate government gold, missing since the final days of the War Between the States. Now the hunters must face danger and work their way through knotty clues and ciphers as they seek a long-lost map drawn in invisible ink on the back of a letter from General Robert E. Lee himself! It’s a map that may point to one of America’s richest lost treasures.
The American Treasure Hunters series is packed with adventure, mystery, and action as modern-day high school seniors Ben, Porter, and Latch search for lost treasure from America’s search for lost treasure from America’s hidden past.
Book 1 in an all-new series where the high school age male heroes are smart, tough, and resourceful—and hunting treasure from American history’s secret past is the greatest game of all.
“There’s a genuine sense of adventure running through the novel and the friendship between the main characters gives the story a lot of heart. It feels like the kind of book younger readers can easily become absorbed in while also giving older readers a reminder of the adventure stories they grew up with themselves.”—Epic Indie
It’s Hardy Boys with modern tech, surfing, football, and podcasts, and . . . doing cool, heroic stuff.”—Upstream Reviews
“The mystery and the adventure were a lot of fun, but for my money, the best parts were the historical discussions and tidbits sprinkled throughout the book. . . . It’s good. It’s clean. It’s fun. . . . Our heroes are solving a mystery downstream of those facts, and they have to stick to them if they’re going to find the treasure.”—The Federalist
“Andrew M. Dare wants to renew popular culture by directly renewing its seedbed, literature, with stories that will inspire young men to prepare their minds, souls, talents, and imaginations to dream big and achieve big. That’s why he has written a new series of novels for teenage boys who crave adventure and knowledge, learning technical skills and unraveling historical mysteries. Call them Hardy Boys for the Twenty-First Century.”—RealClearBooks.com
“If I’d read it when I was 13 years old, I would have thought it’s one of the greatest books ever written. . . . Ben, Porter, and Latch are fine protagonists, and the story moves along at a fast pace through a well-constructed historical mystery. . . . [The reader gets] a mixture of educational stuff with action, mystery, a little romance (that angle is handled quite well), and a little humor.”—James Reasoner, Rough Edges
“American Treasure Hunters continues to deliver exactly what it promised in Book 1: competent, ambitious young men having old-fashioned adventures while learning real American history. . . . It’s Hardy Boys with modern tech, surfing, football, and podcasts, aimed squarely at boys who want to read about other boys doing cool, heroic stuff.”—Upstream Reviews
“There’s a genuine sense of adventure running through the novel and the friendship between the main characters gives the story a lot of heart. It feels like the kind of book younger readers can easily become absorbed in while also giving older readers a reminder of the adventure stories they grew up with themselves.”—Epic Indie