In January of 1671 the pirate Henry Morgan captured and sacked
Panama City. Morgan took considerable booty Panama but missed the
fabled Golden Altar, a priceless artifact which a local priest had
painted with creosote to avoid detection. This story tells of
Morgan's rage when he discovered what he had overlooked.
Continuing, it relates how a descendant, Major Henry Morgan, a
British Army officer who passed through Panama after the Falkland's
War, returns in 1985 to steal the altar. Descriptions of Morgan's
raid in 1671 and of the City of Panama in 1985 are accurate.
However, the unviolated Golden Altar still resides today in the
church of San Jose, close to where General Manuel Antonio Noriega's
infamous Defense Forces headquarters stood until 1989, when the
U.S. invasion destroyed the complex, and life in Panama changed
forever.
General
Imprint: |
Palibrio
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2012 |
First published: |
September 2012 |
Authors: |
Michael Merry
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
250 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4633-3912-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Historical fiction
|
LSN: |
1-4633-3912-7 |
Barcode: |
9781463339128 |
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