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"Who would've guessed that a 150-year-old mystery could be so dangerous? While the sibling sleuths of the Davis Detective agency, Arthur and Kirstin Davis, are visiting their uncle in San Francisco, a chance conversation at a baseball game puts them on the trail of 400 pounds of gold that vanished during the Gold Rush. But the teen detectives soon discover that someone wants them off the case. The investigation quickly becomes a harrowing adventureoexploring the treacherous old gold fields, scuba diving in the shark infested waters of the San Francisco Bay, and managing to get inside one of the buried ships. But things really get dangerous when they finally uncover the secret of the lost treasure of Fernando Montoya.
Author
Rick Acker writes novels during his commute to and from his "real job" as a Supervising Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice. His unit prosecutes corporate fraud lawsuits of the type described in the #1 bestseller, WHEN THE DEVIL WHISTLES, which award-winning author Colleen Coble describes as "a legal thriller you won't want to miss!" Rick has led investigations and lawsuits that made headlines in and out of California. Most recently, he and his team won a string record-breaking judgments and settlements against the Wall Street players who created the toxic mortgage securities that triggered the Great Recession. Before joining DOJ, Rick was a senior litigator at Bingham McCutchen, where he worked on high stakes litigation, including a fight between two owners of the San Francisco Forty-Niners and a multibilllion dollar international fraud case. Rick has law degrees from the University of Oslo and the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated with honors. In addition to his novels, he is a contributing author on two legal treatises published by the American Bar Association. When Rick isn't writing or lawyering, you can usually find him with his wife, Anette, and their four children. They'll be exploring in the hills east of San Francisco, watching a good movie together, or, of course, reading. You can visit him on the web at www.rickacker.com
