Book debut by author Gibbes McDowell (Driftwood Unmasked, the Legend and the Man).

The Story Of Hugh Patrick Knox Corry. "Fascinating characters…historical actuality…mini-plots worthy of a great mystery writer…a masterful accomplishment in itself…hidden treasure, and down-home southern island flavor  ~ Author Joel R. Dennstedt (Readers’ Favorite).

"Driftwood" takes up home with the Sea Island Gullah community on neighboring Saint Helena Island, which welcomes the strangely-accented white man into its own, and "Driftwood" even wins over the mysterious witch doctor "Dr. Snake" to make his home and marry one of their women. It isn't long after his arrival that he attracts the attention of the local sheriff and his good ol' boy deputies, but the conflicts of the pre-desegregation south are relatively minor until the day "Driftwood" discovers pirate gold in the marshes near his home...and a piece shows up and is brought to the sheriff's attention!

 "Driftwood Unmasked" explores the fictional political hierarchy of Beaufort and the Sea Islands in all its fact-based reality, sharing with the reader what life was like in those times decades past. Shining through all the political turmoil and threats, "Driftwood" steadfastly remains unchanged in his calm fight against "The Man".