The huge Spanish noa de chine, Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, sailed from Manila, Philippines on August 28, 1698, bound for Acapulco, Mexico, a port on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Her cargo hold was bursting with wooden chests filled with bars of 24-carat gold, precious jewels, and hundreds of crates containing thousands of pieces of priceless Chinese porcelain. It was the largest treasure ever carried on a sailing vessel, and was accompanied by more than 700 men, women and children. She was never seen or heard from again. Almost 400 years later, the personal sailing journal of a 17-year-old Third Lieutenant serving aboard a British man-o-war is discovered in a nautical antiques store in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. It tells the story of the rescue of a Spanish castaway from a tiny coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean, and contains the final words of Capitan Don Emilio Bustamente de la Vega, the sole survivor of the Spanish noa. An encrypted message revealing the location of the noa's billion-dollar treasure is buried in Bustamente's prayer for absolution, and he prevails upon the young British lieutenant to see it conveyed to the Vatican in Rome. But fate intervenes, and the message is not delivered. Discovery of the sailing journal launches a frantic, globe-girdling recovery effort and alerts a deadly international consortium that includes Japanese Yakuza pirates who will stop at nothing to seize the treasure for themselves—and kill anyone who attempts to interfere. Former U.S. Marine Corps sniper, Jake Porter, and veteran of the first Gulf War in Iraq, is more than up to the challenge. He enlists the help of a Marine Corps intelligence officer to decrypt the hidden message in the sailing journal that reveals the location of the treasure—a tiny coral atoll in the cold north Pacific Ocean. He races to the island aboard his sailboat against a vicious, unseen enemy who is killing his friends in their search for the treasure's secret.

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Synopsis of the Story  A treasure quest unlike any other! A billion dollars in Spanish gold, priceless Chinese porcelain, and thousands of pieces of polished jewelry mounted with everything from Indian rubies and diamonds, to Siamese sapphires and Chinese jade. Buried in a lava cave on a tiny coral atoll in the cold North Pacific Ocean almost 400 years ago. Just waiting to be found.  The sole survivor of the wrecked Spanish galleon carrying the treasure is rescued, only to die days later, but not before leaving an encrypted message in his prayer for absolution to the Catholic Pope in Rome revealing the location of the treasure. But the message never makes it to the Vatican. Instead it is discovered four centuries later in a 17-year old British Third Lieutenant's sailing log. Found in a Fort Lauderdale, FL nautical antiques store, its secret still intact, the lieutenant's log is purchased by Jake Porter, a former U.S. Marine Corps sniper from the first Gulf War now working as the captain of a wealthy surgeon's yacht, the Sea Bones. On a hunch, Jake submits the log to a Marine Corps reserve officer and graduate of the U.S. Navy's cryptology school asking that it be examined for the possibility of a hidden message.  But Jake Porter makes a mistake in the course of his research and inadvertently awakens an international consortium of murderous pirates who immediately scheme to intercept the treasury's recovery and kill anyone in their way. A deadly globe-girdling pursuit of the treasure is launched that pits vicious Japanese Yakuza criminals against a handful of young marines led by Jake Porter. They will clash on the tiny Pacific atoll of Minami Torishima, and do battle-to-the-death reminiscent of the bloody World War II clashes between U.S. Marines and suicidal Japanese Imperial troops. Only this time, the Japanese fight for treasure instead of their emperor.  Acting on other information in the English Third Lieutenant's log, and impatient to pursue something which he feels in his bones, Jake sails his sailboat, the Giggling Witch, across the Pacific Ocean even as his friends discover the sailing log's hidden message and others are being murdered by persons unknown. He follows the tradewinds route of the Spanish galleons and lands on the island of Saipan in the northern Marianas. As he replenishes his supplies and waits for a seasonal change in the winds that will carry him to the treasure island of Minami Torishima, Jake meets and enters into a passionate affair with a voluptuous Chamarro native woman who has a mysterious tattoo on the bottom of her left foot. Her tattoo will change everything.  Jake discovers that his sailboat, the Giggling Witch, has been compromised in some way and the Japanese Yakuza are tracking him by satellite. To give them the slip, he borrows an inter-island proa owned by his Chamorro lover's family and sails off on the final outward bound leg of his journey. Finally landing on the treasure island, Jake comes to realize that the passage of almost four hundred years has thoroughly obscured the location of the treasure. After weeks of frustrating labor digging exploratory trenches, fate intervenes in a very explosive and unsuspecting way. Jake is seriously injured and his treasure recovery capabilities severely limited. He is able to fill Makena, the native proa, with selected pieces of the treasure and bear away to the east, landing on the tiny, privately-owned Hawaiian island of Niihau, an incredible open-boat voyage of more than three thousand miles. But he has left nine-tenths of the treasure behind, and must now, somehow, race back to grab it before the pirates realize that he has not recovered all of the treasure. It will be a race to the death.

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