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The Chase for the Missing Mummy
High school seniors Ben Prescott, Porter Rockwell, and Latch McCrae are united by a shared passion: to plumb the depths of America’s past for lost treasure. Ben is the brains, the dreamer, the visionary. Porter is the muscle and quick-witted action man. And Latch is the gearhead, who never saw a device he couldn’t pull apart, figure out, and make use of for treasure hunting.
While researching Ambrose Bierce— the famous and sharp-tongued American writer and adventurer who vanished in Mexico in 1913—Ben comes across phrases in the author's piece in an old magazine that go beyond Bierce’s usual razor-smile, hot-take humor. It looks to Ben like Bierce was laying out clues to a lost treasure! Following a cross-country trail, the hunters delve into America’s booming and freewheeling Gilded Age. Along the way, a mummified body surfaces, rumored to be Bierce himself.
Meanwhile, lurking in the shadows is the hunters’ shady nemesis, the Alignment and its malicious operator, Forigo, determined to suppress anything cool in American history. Now Ben, Porter, and Latch must follow a dangerous path from the halls of power in Washington D.C. to the remote vastness of the American Southwest, as they chase after Bierce’s missing mummy—and a Gilded Age fortune of historic proportions!
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 hidden past.
Book 6 in the American Treasure Hunters series!
“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