Double Eagle by Sneed B. Collard III245 pages
Truman Nominee
Middle school guys are gonna love this book. Mysterious gold, adventure, and hurricane, and 18 million dollars.
(from jacket cover)
The year is 1862. A confederate ship, the Skink, is attacked by Union forces and sinks off the Alabama coast. In spite of rumors that the ship was carrying gold coins, no trace of the wreck and not a single piece of Confederate gold is ever found.
Fast forward to 1973. Fourteen-year-old Mike is prepared for another routine summer in Pensacola with his marine biologist father. But plans change and Mike find himself on Shipwreck Island-near the site where the Skink went down and right in the middle of a century old mystery!
Mike and his new friend Kyle are intrigued by a salvage ship anchored just offshore. Some say it was brought in by fortune hunters searching for the long-lost Confederate ship and its treasure. But when they sneak into a restricted chamber of the fort on the island, the boys make a startling discovery that may mean the fortune hunters are looking in the wrong place. Just as they begin to unravel the mystery, Mike and Kyle find themselves trying to outrun the hurricane bearing down on the island and outwit thieves who will do anything to get their hand on the missing fortune!
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