Hard Aground: A Novel

450 years ago a treasureship went down. In Miami, the heat hasnt let upyet...Hap Tyler tailboards on Biscayne bay, hearsvoices, seduces young women, and lives on the edgeof history in his familys old-money mansion amidMiamis pastel glitz. But while Hap stumbles aroundin the shadow of his more successful olderbrother, Daniel, a tangled web of deception and greed isbeing spun around him --a web that leads Daniel tohis death. Trying to solve his brothers murder, Hapcollides with a 450-year-old secret: the disappearanceof $400 million in a sunken Spanish plunder.Daniels upscale girlfriend is close to digging up thetreasure, an avaricious senator has already tastedit, and a stone-cold killer will stop at nothingto bring it home. For Hap a dark and bloody vein ofFlorida and family history has been opened. Andthe only way to close it is through a modern ritualof violence and truth.

Author: James Hall

Language: English

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Pages: 462

Publisher: Dell

Publication Date: 1994-01-01