The Pirate of Panama: A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure

John Sedgwick is a young lawyer trapped in monotony, until he finds a yellowed scrap of paper that cracks open a world of danger and possibility. The treasure map belonged to pirates, and now so does he. Panama in the age of buried gold is a place where a man's worth is measured in nerve and gunpowder, and Sedgwick soon discovers that the map has made him a target: from Evelyn Wallace, a beautiful heiress whose family history is tangled with the treasure's dark past, and from Boris Bothwell, her cousin, a charming predator who will kill to claim the gold for himself. What follows is a breathless chase across jungle and sea, through confrontations with the ghosts of old pirates and the sharp end of a pistol in the present. Raine delivers pure adventure fiction: a story where a man can leave his boring life behind and become something more than a lawyer in a dreary office. It's for anyone who has ever found a map and wondered what waited at the X.