Hard Aground: A Novel - Softcover

Hall, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440213576 ISBN 13: 9780440213574

Publisher: Dell, 1994

Synopsis

450 years ago a treasure  ship went down. In Miami, the heat hasn't let up  yet...Hap Tyler tailboards on Biscayne bay, hears  voices, seduces young women, and lives on the edge  of history in his family's old-money mansion amid  Miami's pastel glitz. But while Hap stumbles around  in the shadow of his more successful older  brother, Daniel, a tangled web of deception and greed is  being spun around him --a web that leads Daniel to  his death.

Trying to solve his brother's murder, Hap  collides with a 450-year-old secret: the disappearance  of $400 million in a sunken Spanish plunder.  Daniel's upscale girlfriend is close to digging up the  treasure, an avaricious senator has already tasted  it, and a stone-cold killer will stop at nothing  to bring it home. For Hap a dark and bloody vein of  Florida and family history has been opened. And  the only way to close it is through a modern ritual  of violence and truth.

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From the Publisher:

"A masterful page-turner." -- Miami Herald.

450 years ago a treasure ship went down. In Miami, the heat hasn't let up yet...Hap Tyler tailboards on Biscayne bay, hears voices, seduces young women, and lives on the edge of history in his family's old-money mansion amid Miami's pastel glitz. But while Hap stumbles around in the shadow of his more successful older brother, Daniel, a tangled web of deception and greed is being spun around him --a web that leads Daniel to his death.

"Buried treasure, sexual kinks, family secrets, real-estate swindles...a complex intrigue." -- The Boston Globe.

Trying to solve his brother's murder, Hap collides with a 450-year-old secret: the disappearance of $400 million in a sunken Spanish plunder. Daniel's upscale girlfriend is close to digging up the treasure, an avaricious senator has already tasted it, and a stone-cold killer will stop at nothing to bring it home. For Hap a dark and bloody vein of Florida and family history has been opened. And the only way to close it is through a modern ritual of violence and truth.

"Highly original and entertaining." -- Elmore Leonard.

From the Back Cover:

"A masterful page-turner." -- Miami Herald.

"Buried treasure, sexual kinks, family secrets, real-estate swindles...a complex intrigue." -- The Boston Globe.

"Highly original and entertaining." -- Elmore Leonard.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0440213576
• ISBN 13: 9780440213574
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 462