Sunken treasure aboard a ship torpedoed in 1945 brings forth a government cover up suspense and finally a surprise.
A strange black package is netted by a fishing trawler off Cape Cod with the marking SS Beddington and Top Secret. The government confiscates the package and covers up the sinking of the SS Beddington during WW ll The story is set on Cape Cod, in Washington, DC, England, Germany and on a German U-boat. The mystery of the package content unfolds and the information inside initiates a salvage operation 400 feet down in the Atlantic where intriguing and dangerous cargo is found. But some of that cargo is missing and the answer to why comes from Munich, Germany where an aged attorney tells who absconded with it.
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A strange black package reveals a Top Secret Cargo in a ship sunk by a German U-boat in 1945. A government cover up an eventual salvage reveals a precious cargo in hold number 4 and a dangerous one in hold number 3.
Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, Catherine Merit strives to fit into a world filled with prejudice, hatred and violence where she is forced to kill a man in order to save herself. Third book of the Indignities Series.
