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Find DeSoto's Lost Silver
Ben Prescott, Porter Rockwell, and Latch McRae couldn’t be more different. Ben is a home-schooled thinker and visionary, Porter is the starting quarterback for the Ridgeport Raiders, and Latch is the gear-man, who never saw a machine he couldn’t take apart and set to purring. Different, yes, but the three have been friends forever with a shared passion: treasure hunting for the forgotten loot of American history.
When the hunters’ senior trip to a famous Ozark Mountains theme park is commandeered by a mysterious “collector of antiquities” with a compelling map, the hunters find themselves deep in the underbelly of a legendary cave where a rumored stash of Spanish silver is said to lie—a treasure long hidden by the schemes of conmen, robbers, and bootleggers who sought to claim it as their own. But the Collector and his map may not be what they seem.
Suddenly, survival is at stake as Ben, Porter, and Latch venture even deeper underground. Now they must plumb the cavern’s secret passages, dodge bottomless pits, and probe lost chambers with only the secretive scrawls of a dubious map to guide them—all with a gang of cutthroats on their tail who seek to steal the cavern’s treasure and trap the hunters beneath the mountains—forever!
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 5 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