Fool'S Paradise,Used

Product Description Fool's Paradise is a blend of real events; fiction; fantasy; mystery and incredible adventures that tells the life story of Bobby Ferguson aka: Bobby McAllister, from early childhood and a neardeath experience that delusionally introduces him to a spectral pirate who tells him about the mythical treasure ship, 'The Prize'.As if one ghost in his life is not enough, a teenage McAllister meets an apparitional woman who not only reenforces his belief in the existence of The Prize but; convinces him of his destiny to locate the mysterious ship.Working for a corrupted politician; a stint as a producer for a television station, his chance meeting of an established and worldfamous treasure hunter, and even a stretch in an Arizona prison, all combine to put him out to sea in search of The Hacha del Oro, a documented treasure ship that went down in a mighty hurricane off the coast of the Florida Keys over 250 years ago. In spite of all the adversity involved, McAllister's experience on the Hacha Project proves to be successful and he confides to Granger Lawton, his true quest is 'The Prize', a treasure he fully expects the reluctant and leery Lawton to help him find. Determined to act as McAllister's Devils' advocate, Lawton agrees to help in the search of The Prize. Their investigation takes them to Seville, Spain, the home of the Archives of the Indies, and perhaps, wherein lays the answers to the unsolved twohundred and fiftyyear old mystery. While touring the Spanish countryside, McAllister comes across a dusty and deserted old mansion that contains onehundred year old evidence of the identity of the haunting apparition that has been McAllister's obsession since his teenage years. The portrait of a beautiful woman distracts his pursuit of The Prize and sends him on what Lawton characterized as a 'wildgoosechase' up the Oronoco River in Venezuela.On a regal, yet struggling cattle ranch outside Ciudad, Bolivar, a gentleman rancher, whose daughter steals McAllister's heart, entertains McAllister, and Lawton. It is Lawton who stumbles on evidence of not only the existence of the The Prize, but its actual location. It takes McAllister, however, to finally locate the cargo she carried by carefully piecing together all of the clues, evidence, cryptic conditions of the island priestess, and even the phantoms of his past to lead him to the treasure... About the Author One of the greatest treasure stories of our time is that of the discovery of The Nuestra Senora de Atocha, by Mel Fisher with over $400,000,000 in precious artifacts, gold and emeralds onboard. Wouldn't the modern day pirate and dreamer in all of us like to have been involved in that adventure of finding and salvaging the Spanish galleon which sank off the Florida Keys during a mighty and violent hurricane in 1622? Bobby Ferguson, the author was...You can now experience that great adventure vicariously from the comfort of your armchair by enjoying this novel Fool's Paradise.Bobby Ferguson (Bobby McAllister), a native of the City of Dreams, Savannah, Georgia and former United States Marine, attended Pepperdine University in California, where he studied Spanish history, Post Secondary Education, Admiralty and salvage law and Aviation. He was instrumental in the salvaging of the Atocha with Mel Fisher in 1985, as well as his subsequent quests. Along with his friend, (The beach bum lawyer), they raised several million dollars from happy investors to keep the successful salvage process in operation.Although Fool's Paradise is a novel, and the characters are fictional, they are based on actual participants and events.Are you prepared to toss the dice, and pay the price to.....Take a trip to Fool's Paradise? 'Paradise is not a place, it's just a state of mind, Where love can offer up much more than life expects to find.' Bobby Ferguson