The Lost El Dorado Series

Professor John Waales, an anthropologist at U.C. Berkeley has spent his life in quest of a great find. He has been the assistant on many good projects, but every original project he tries winds up in failure. His wife died suddenly when he was on a failed mission out of contact with his family for six weeks. His daughter, who was 12 at the time never forgave him completely. He lost himself in his work and further alienated her. He has been working on finding the famed El Dorado, the legendary city made of gold hidden in the Andean Mountains near Bogota, the modern capitol of Columbia, for years. He is close friends with a chiropractor, Dr. Jack Paris, who takes care of him and his daughter. He has an assistant, Robin Quigley, who is secretly plotting against him to capture gold and the glory of the El Dorado treasure. He is also friends with the skipper of a W.W.II PT boat who takes him up the Amazon in search for the gold. His theory, laughed at by many of his colleagues, shows that the Chibcha Indians, who built the Lost City at Lake Guatavita, actually tore down the buildings covered with sheets of gold, took their treasures, and moved out of the mountains down several thousand feet to the Amazon jungle, along one of the many hidden tributaries. Here they hid from the outside world and were never heard from again, except by occasional sightings, all unconfirmed. This data had been gathered by Professor Waales and was now waiting physical confirmation.   There is an Ex-CIA spy, Thomas Reichen, who was kicked out of the Agency and was supposed to be terminated. They were unable to kill him and he changed his looks and his identity. He became a professional guide in Peru and Columbia and learned those countries inside and out. He has connections with the natives, terrorists, drug runners and gun dealers. He is hired by a Financier, Leon Scarborough, who is financing the efforts of the Anthropologist, but is actually working for a terrorist. The guide is told that once the City is found, then he will kill the anthropologist, his daughter, the chiropractor and the boat captain. This also works well for the Guide, because he will keep the Captain's boat and will return for supplies to set up a satellite relay / laser weapon which will serve the terrorist's country. They would keep the gold and also harvest, extract and sell cocaine from the Basin. Then the Assistant Anthropologist will take credit for the discovery of the site, the laser will be installed and the gold will be secretly removed. The assistant anthropologist will be told he will get most of the gold and the credit for the discovery, but he will be killed after the others once they discover the City. The plan is, that at the end, the Financier and the Guide will make it back to civilization with the help of the natives and will be thought to be dead along with the others.   What they also didn't count on was the presence of giant killer piranhas in the river around the new location of the famed El Dorado. These piranha were bred over 500 years ago with the local, non killer Pacu fish - a close relative which feeds on vegetation and also the giant pirarucu fish. The Pacu are much larger than the piranhas- some two to three feet in length, but have the same body shape as the piranhas and the pirarucu are one of the world's largest fresh water fish, as long as twelve feet in length and weigh several hundred pounds. When they were cross bred by the local kings who lived in the El Dorado, they eventually became giant killers, with Piranha teeth and a taste for flesh, but with the length of the much larger pirarucu and the girth of the fat pacu.

RETURN TO THE LOST EL DORADO   The Return to the Lost El Dorado is the sequel to The Lost El Dorado.   It's now one year later.   The Archaeologist from U.C. Berkeley, is onsite and exploring gold caves and tunnels which had been abandoned many centuries earlier. Some actually dive deep under the mighty Amazon River and may contain more gold than they imagined. Unfortunately, he is facing resistance from the local natives who are beginning to resent his presence and are growing more and more aggressive. He has also heard the rumblings deep in the caverns he has been exploring. Because he knows he is on borrowed time, he is rushing his explorations, risking a cave in and certain death due to the nearness of the river above his head.   The Tribal leader's infant son, has come down with a rare disease that is fatal unless a medication is found and also a doctor who can deliver it on time. Because his condition is growing graver by the day, only the speedy PT boat can get them to the boy in time.   The PT boat's skipper is a hardened warrior from both Vietnam and many years working on the dangerous Amazon. Normally he could deliver the doctor and the necessary medication without a problem. What he doesn't know is that a former enemy, heavily financed by a woman, also from his past is sending deadly people to not only stop him, but to also kill him.   Their motivation? Not only the hoards of gold already in the village of golden buildings, but also the vast undiscovered gold they know is waiting for them once they get there and take over.   There is a girl/woman/child, who is also out to stop the skipper for reasons of her own. She knows witchcraft, magic, voodoo and is said not to be of this earth. Before she is through, the skipper will know fear, even greaster than he faced in Vietnam.  

This is the third chapter in The Lost El Dorado series. The Lost Treasure of the Jamaican Pirate, is a treasure hunt for ancient gold set in a Blue Hole in the southern waters of the Caribbean Sea.   The PT boat returns with its usual crew of treasure hunters to find the lost treasure which was placed there by a Jamaican Pirate named Captain Lester Smith in the late 1800's. He had been commissioned by the Union Army to fight against the Confederate Army, but, because of a last-minute swindle, he was forced to flee for his life, taking the Union money and became an outlaw.   Now it is almost 150 years later and his great grandson, also a pirate, named Captain Lester Smith is hot on his ancestor's trail to find the lost treasure. There is a mercenary also looking for the gold and the three groups clash in their quest to find the lost treasure.   The crew of the PT boat led by Captain Bill Treese, are diving in the dangerous water of the Blue Hole, which has held its secrets for the past century. Will they find the gold, only to lose it in the end to the other parties involved, or will they unlock a famous mystery and live to tell about it?   Only time will reveal the lost treasure of the Jamaican pirate!

Our friends on the PT boat are on a new adventure, but this time it will be the most dangerous journey of their lives! Dr. Jack Paris' daughter and three of her friends were invited to teach English to the children of Colon, Panama, but they have gone missing.   Intel has told Jack and the crew of the PT boat that the teenage girls have been kidnapped and will be sold for slaves in Cartagena, Columbia. But between them lies the Darién Gap - the most dangerous jungle in the world. The jungle is inhabited by drug runners, sex slavers, military men, mercenaries, jaguars, killer snakes and deadly spiders.   The men who kidnapped the girls are military men, who are also looking for the lost gold mines of the Darien Gap, one of the richest strikes in Central America.   Unfortunately, this lost treasure is protected by an ancient tribe of natives, sworn to protect the gold from all outsiders. Only the PT boat and its crew can rescue the girls and get them out alive before everything comes to a deadly end!