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The Treasure Hunter of Santiago (Hardcover)
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The Treasure Hunter of Santiago (Hardcover)
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In August of 1838, in the middle of a devastating civil war, a
grotesque figure arrived with the mail coach at Santiago de
Compostela, the ancient pilgrimage town in the North-West of Spain.
He was a former Swiss mercenary, who thirty years previously had
heard a rumour about a massive hoard of church plate buried by the
soldiers of Marshal Ney. A fantasy? A daydream? Just one of the
many hollow legends of hidden gold that abound in Spain? Perhaps
so. But, astonishingly, the Swiss vagrant did not come on his own
errand. He came sponsored by Spain's savvy Minister of Finance, Don
Alejandro Mon, who for some shadowy reason of his own lent credence
to the tale. Like an historical Sherlock Holmes, Peter Missler
traces the true tale of Benedict Mol, the treasure hunter, through
the mists of time and a smoke-screen of cover-stories. It is a
fascinating saga which takes us into Portugal with the looting
French invaders, into the wildest mountains of Northern Spain with
the brilliant polyglot George Borrow, and - by the hand of Mol -
into the darkest nooks and corners of a hospital for syphilitics.
No treasure was ever found, either in the first attempt, which
toppled the government, or in the second one, which ended with the
murder of two innocent peasants. Therefore, quite possibly, Ney's
treasure still lies waiting elsewhere in a Santiago park...
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