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"Sunken gold, black magic, sea monsters, a beautiful Brazilian in a bikini-what more could you want from a summer thriller?" –Kirkus, starred review His summer after college graduation was never supposed to turn out this way. But when Jack Duran’s older, vagabond brother Dan goes missing in Mexico, Jack heads to Puerta Vallarta to find him. With two friends in tow, Jack follows Dan’s trail of shady dealings, which leads him to a Bahamian yachtsman and his bikini-clad crew. Sailing down the jungle-covered coast, they soon discover that Dan had been searching for a shipwreck. But some treasures are meant to stay buried…
When they finally locate the sunken ruins, they begin their furious search for the booty until, one by one, the divers begin to disappear. Could they be the victims of el Diablo Blanco, a deadly local legend come to life? Blinded by the prospect of untold riches, Jack travels toward the very brink of the abyss as he pursues his harrowing quest for…
DARK GOLD
- Sales Rank: #8026130 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Wheeler Publishing
- Published on: 2006-11
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.05" h x 5.56" w x 8.48" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 613 pages
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From Publishers Weekly
Take a quest to find a lost brother, hot sex with incredibly beautiful babes, a giant man-eating beast that may or may not be a god, a sunken ship and a fortune in gold. Throw in some evil, demented villagers and a pirate or two, place these plot elements into the hands of a stylish, intelligent writer, and you've got yourself a page-turner that will take readers back to the days when a good book meant you stayed up all night under the covers with a flashlight. Jack Duran heads to Mexico with his two pals, Duff and Rock, on the first leg of what they plan as an around-the-world adventure. Their immediate goal is to find Jack's errant brother, Dan, who has been missing for months. They become involved in a treasure hunt led by the mysterious Leopold Bellocheque, a Bahamian businessman with a fancy yacht and the aforementioned babes as his crew. The hunt quickly develops disastrous and deadly consequences. Screenwriter Angsten's tall tale is for grown-up boys who lust for swashbuckling literary adventure set in tropical climes. Extra batteries for that flashlight are recommended. (July)
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"Sunken treasure, gorgeous women, and a nightmarish sea creature…luridly readable."
--Entertainment Weekly
"Take another look at this book's cover. What's hidden inside will make your eyes widen."--David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Creepers
"A page-turner…for grown-up boys who lust for swashbuckling literary adventure… will take readers back to the days when a good book meant you stayed up all night under the covers with a flashlight."--Publishers Weekly
"[A] pastiche of Crichton, Lovecraft, Jules Verne, and Robinson Crusoe."--Entertainment Weekly
"I sat down with Angsten's thriller this afternoon, and I was still reading at two A.M. Dark Gold builds to a frantic and explosive climax."--Royce Buckingham, author of Demon Keeper
"Taut and well-crafted. I couldn't put it down."--John Scott Shepherd, author Henry's List of Wrongs and The Dead Father's Guide to Sex & Marriage, and screenwriter for Joe Somebody and Life or Something Like It
"Thrills and chills…sunken gold, black magic, sea monsters, a beautiful Brazilian in a bikini--what more could you want from a summer thriller?"--Kirkus Reviews
"A first-class roller-coaster ride of a novel."--Nick Redfern, author of Three Men Seeking Monsters
"Like Benchley's Jaws, David Angsten's debut will once again chase swimmers out of the water. Fraught with shivering suspense and a hauntingly eerie atmosphere, Dark Gold grips with feverish intensity. As literate as it is frightening. Read it with both a silver cross and a speargun at your side."--James Rollins, the New York Times bestselling author of Map of Bones and Black Order
From the Back Cover
"Sunken treasure, gorgeous women, and a nightmarish sea creature…luridly readable."
--Entertainment Weekly
His summer after college graduation was never supposed to turn out this way. But when Jack Duran's older, vagabond brother Dan goes missing in Mexico, Jack heads to Puerta Vallarta to find him. With two friends in tow, Jack follows Dan's trail of shady dealings, which leads him to a Bahamian yachtsman and his bikini-clad crew. Sailing down the jungle-covered coast, they soon discover that Dan had been searching for a shipwreck. But some treasures are meant to stay buried…
"Take another look at this book's cover. What's hidden inside will make your eyes widen." --DAVID MORRELL, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CREEPERS
When they finally locate the sunken ruins, they begin their furious search for the booty until, one by one, the divers begin to disappear. Could they be the victims of el Diablo Blanco, a deadly local legend come to life? Blinded by the prospect of untold riches, Jack travels toward the very brink of the abyss as he pursues his harrowing quest for…
DARK GOLD
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Not Your Average Monster Book
By Kara J. Jorges
Jack Duran and his two best friends, Rock and Duff, have been painting houses and saving money, and now they're ready to take a trip around the world. Their first stop is Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, the last known location of Jack's wild older brother Dan. Jack's mother has been frantic with worry since she hasn't heard from her eldest son in months, so the three young men spend several weeks scouring Puerto Vallarta for any sign of Dan, with no success. When Jack finally finds a scrap of information, it comes with a warning in the form of "Yanqui go home," carved into his back with a knife. Naturally, instead of heeding the warning, Jack, Rock, and Duff attempt to hire a boat to Punta Perdida, where Jack now believes Dan to be. But no one will take them, calling it a bad place. The guys befriend another trio on a yacht, however. Portly Jamaican Hector Bellocheque is on vacation sailing with two lovely young women, Eva and Candy, and the whole group is soon on their way to the strange village. Bellocheque intrigues the young men with a tale of lost gold on the sea bottom near Punta Perdida, and when a maimed priest in the village gives Jack his missing brother's knapsack and hurries him away, they know that Dan is dead.
One of the items in Dan's knapsack is a notebook filled with his stoned ramblings, diagrams, and a diary of sorts that gives directions to a wreck called the Argonaut lying on the bottom near the village. The group decides to go looking for it, and with the notebook's directions, it is not long before the Argonaut is found. Shortly thereafter, Hector and Candy return from the dive with more gold coins like the one Hector had shown them earlier. Jack and Duff dive next, and Jack discovers five chests full of gold bars. Duff heads back to the surface ahead of Jack, and Jack then sees something so frighteningly huge, he passes out and has to be rescued by the others. They inform him Duff never made it back to the boat.
After Jack witnesses a strange, dark ritual too bizarre to seem real in Punta Perdida, Bellocheque tells them the legend behind the Argonaut and of the giant manta ray that guards the gold, which ties into the antisocial behavior of the villagers. The stakes are high, but the payoff will be great if they can abscond with the Argonaut's gold. There are other dangers, as well as the huge manta, and Jack discovers the seductive lure of gold and the immense risks and depraved depths it will take people to, as well as the high price to pay for its wealth.
Though it starred one heck of a scary monster and had its share of action, this was far more than a mere monster book. Angsten has a wry and entertaining way of turning a phrase, and Jack Duran experiences more than greed, lust, and fear while he finds his soul turned inside out by Punta Perdida, the Argonaut, and the legendary Diablo Blanco, the immense manta ray. Though some aspects of the story unfolded as predicted, there were enough unexpected twists to keep me guessing. David Angsten has a new fan.
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Could have taken all the marbles for the year, but slips at the end
By Arthur Tirrell
"Jaws" had it's Great White. "The Deep" had it's Moray, and now, "Dark Gold" has it's giant supernatural...what?
Of course, the cover ruins the secret; it's a giant manta ray.
What is wrong with this publisher? Angsten's devilfish doesn't show up until very late in the story, and is never actually seen clearly by a character. The story would be much scarier without the cover image. I know, cause I read the book on my Kindle. I didn't know what the thing was, and there was no cover image to tip me off.
Dark Gold starts out like a house afire as recent grad Jack Duran and two buddies set out to find Jack's older brother, who hasn't been heard from since he sent a postcard from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Jack's search leads him to - what could be scarier than a biker bar deep in Mexico at night - where he first hears the words "Punta Perdida," and then has to fight his way out of the place before he can take the next step.
Arriving at Punta Perdida, the bumbling detectives find the natives sullen and uncommnicative, but Jack is able to establish that his brother has been there. Enter rich Bahamian Leopold Bellocheque and his ravishing all girl crew aboard his fabulous sailing yacht and you have the full set of ingredients for intrigue. It turns out there might be a gold rush era shipwreck - enough gold to make the Atocha look like a garbage scow - and close, very close. Why hasn't the wreck been looted long ago? Duh! It's the same reason the natives burn ritual fires on the beach and make sacrifices that are bloody and violent and might even be human: there's something SCARY out there.
Unfortunately, as so often happens when an author attempts to introduce elements of the supernatural late in a story, a kind of "haze" develops, the plot begins to blur and ultimately loses focus. You might call it the rush of events. I call it an author who hasn't quite fully developed his ability to quide the reader's experience. It happens here. The logic isn't good enough and I wasn't sold. And sadly, the author also passes on opportunities to develop the characters, particularly the supporting actors, into well-rounded likeable people, choosing instead to keep the action moving at all costs - and we find ourselves witnessing developments that make little sense and which we don't care about all that much one way or the other.
Dark Gold is still plenty scary - if you've ever been underwater and behind your back something has started to eat your friends, you know what I mean - and the claustrophobic scenes inside the treasure ship are vivid and incredibly tense. All this is helped by the author's polished prose and application of suspense. Given all its successes, the story simply asks the reader to bend disbelief a shade too far, and as we all know, when it snaps, it's gone and cannot be retrieved.
Could have taken all the marbles, but didn't.
Art Tirrell is the author of 2007's The Secret Ever Keeps
...Simply put, the best underwater scenes I've ever read." (M. Westley)
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An OK read but the author couldn't seem to decide ...
By Old RIO
An OK read but the author couldn't seem to decide whether this was a straight adventure, treasure story or a science fiction, mutant monster story. A carnivorous Manta Ray guarding a sunken treasure and supported by a human sacrificing death cult on land...? It was a little hard to buy into it all.
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