Passage of the Hurricane - by James Lawrence Paperback

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--Scott Dominic Carpenter, author of Theory of Remainders

In 1990s San Francisco, the gruesome death of a former district attorney uncovers a 19th-century double homicide aboard the ship Hurricane, and begins the hunt for Inca gold smuggled from Peru to California by wayward Catholic priests.

During the Gold Rush, dozens of ships were abandoned in San Francisco by sailors bedazzled by the news of gold in the California hills. These ships were buried under downtown landfill, and a huge Inca treasure is aboard one of them. The search for a modern-day murderer and the ancient golden hoard unravels two criminal organizations, one a Chinese triad doing business all over the Pacific Rim, the other an artifact-smuggling ring called Caruso that uses code related to the famous tenor.

Both cases are solved by investigator George Krishna Walker, a native San Franciscan raised in India who uses unconventional techniques and consultants in his work, and who falls in love, again, with the daughter of the deceased, and she with him.

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