Maximilian's Treasure

The story of Maximilian

AUTHOR	James Bell
PUBLISHING FORMAT	Hardback and Kindle
NUMBER OF PAGES	374
YEAR OF ISSUE	2019

Sinopsis

Do you have a passion for justice? Do you enjoy white-knuckled adventure, mystery, courtroom drama, true love and belly laughs? If so, then join lawyers Brooks and Bradley in the legal thriller, Maximilian’s Treasure is a dramatization of a real-life experience I had forty years ago. A stately elder told my friend and me he believed Civil War gold was on his farm in Mississippi. He believed that Maximilian, the Emperor of Mexico, sent gold to support the South’s war effort. The war ended when the gold was near his farm and was hidden there. He asked us to help him look for the treasure. We travelled with him to his farm and had a great day listening to his stories while we searched with him. You might think this unusual. It’s not. It’s just another day of law practice in Mississippi, where the unusual and outlandish is an everyday occurrence.

TIn Maximilian’s Treasure rumours of hidden gold fuel a battle over possession of a Choctaw family farm. Two young lawyers, John Brooks and Jackson Bradley, agree to help the family keep their farm. Early legal success prompts the drive-by murder of the patriarch of the family. The grandson chases the suspects whose bodies are found on the farm, scalped. At the same time, clues to a vast treasure are found on the farm. Jackson, pursued by fortune seekers, adventurers, an exotic beauty and a homicidal maniac follows the clues to a Caribbean reef and then to the Chiapas jungle. John stays behind to defend the grandson and continue the fight for the farm. His efforts are complicated by arson, murder, race riots, and the realization he lost his one true love. The adventures of John and Jackson rush toward an intertwined triple climax that could shake the world.

Every book and every movie used to have a purpose, a “moral to the story.” I feel we have lost that purpose with some of today’s entertainment. I am motivated to bring back the moral to the story. That is why I write. Maximilian’s Treasure is packed with hidden treasurers to be discovered.

So, if you love mystery, adventure, romance, justice, belly laughs and hidden treasures, it’s all waiting for you in Maximilian’s Treasure. You’ve got to read it!