Summary
In the sweltering humidity of 1804 Florida, a fortune in government silver vanished into the earth, leaving behind a legacy of greed and blood. Decades later, Secret Service operative Brice is dispatched into the wilderness to reclaim the lost bullion, but he finds himself caught in a three-way crossfire. On one side are Hade and Milo, two opportunists whose hunger for wealth has stripped them of their morality. On the other are the 'Conches,' the local inhabitants who claim the land and its buried secrets as their own. The mission complicates further when Brice falls for Claire, Milo’s half-sister, turning a federal recovery operation into a desperate rescue mission. From shark-infested waters to secret tunnels equipped with medieval defenses, Brice must navigate a gauntlet of betrayal where the environment is just as lethal as the men hunting him. The silver is the prize, but survival is the only real currency.
Synopsis
Brice, a secret service agent, seeks information regarding stolen silver which disappeared from the government in 1804. Hade and Milo seek the fortune for themselves, as do the "conches" natives of Florida since the time the money was buried. Claire, half sister of Milo, falls in love with Brice, who is captured by Milo and Hade and taken to an island where he is to be killed. He is rescued by another secret service agent. He escapes the island after being thrown into a sea of sharks. Claire and Brice are captured by the "conches" from whose camp they escape. After they have returned to Claire's home, Milo advances on Brice just as "conches" attack the house through a secret tunnel. They are repulsed by a stream of boiling water poured into the tunnel. Hade is arrested, later escapes but to meet his death wandering in the everglades. The government takes possession of the money and Brice takes possession of a wife.
