Treasure Of The Diary (Mark Rollins Adventures) - 9781939285065

Three Nashville college students find an old, tattered journal. Sensing the book will lead to an adventure, they use ultraviolet light to bring the faded cursive writing to life one page at a time. Their discovery is the diary of Confederate Corporal James Donelson Walker, a prisoner of war. According to the diary, prior to his capture he had been part of a gang of irregulars that stormed a Union train and made off with over a ton of gold which they buried in the city of Asheville, North Carolina. The students continue to restore pages hoping that the Corporal would eventually tell the location of the buried gold. As they read each diary page a story unfolds. The plight of prisoners is a story of brutally harsh conditions, bad water, starvation, disease, and general miseries suffered under the callous indifference of their guards. Yet, there are occasional moments of happiness in an otherwise hopeless place. When Corporal Walker fears he will not live to enjoy freedom he reveals a secret in his diary, one he had pledged to take to his grave.That secret, the directions to the gold, sends the students to the Western North Carolina mountains to recover the stolen Civil War gold buried in Asheville. The students have technology on their side-a drone, deep seeking metal detectors, and even an exotic gravity device that can find caves and underground vaults. Despite their high-tech equipment recovering the gold after one hundred and fifty years is not that simple. Their initial effort fails, and they realize that there is more to the diary's secret than first appeared. Their adventure takes a sinister turn when one of the students disappears. Mark Rollins arrives and is joined in the search for the student by two tough looking men dispatched by the missing boy's uncle, a former Czech mobster turned Miami real estate tycoon.Things get dicey when the students discover that they are not the only ones after the gold.

• | Author: Tom Collins
• | Publisher: I-65 North, Incorporated
• | Publication Date: Dec 05, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 222 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1939285062
• | ISBN-13: 9781939285065