In 1999 after ten years of work and a year of finding a publisher, Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar became a book. It was the culmination of a great deal of research into Oak Island's mystery, the Knights Templar, and the many times the Atlantic was crossed by Europeans before Columbus. Correspondence with readers, other authors and a whole new cast of those with similar interests helped pave the way for the books that followed. It helped to have an insatiable desire for the truth and the need to turn over every rock and peer around every corner.