The Manila Galleon

Peter de Vries rugged and resourceful is a rogue CIA agent on the run from the Agency that is trying to kill him. While he is hiding out in a remote tropical island in the Philippines he gets involved in the salvage of a seventeenth century Spanish treasure ship. He meets a beautiful elegant and refined English woman an archeologist working at the wreck site. She is intrigued by the mystery surrounding de Vries and puzzled by his unexplained detailed knowledge concerning the Spanish galleon and events in the seventeenth century. Peter de Vries is posing as a scuba diver but explodes into violent physical action on several occasions; in order to protect her making her suspect there is much more to this other wise quiet man. How and why is he so skilled in deadly combat? How is it he knows so much about the history of the Spanish galleon lying on the bottom of the lagoon? A strong. Independent feminist she is nevertheless powerfully drawn emotionally and sexually toward this enigmatic man much against her better judgment and instincts!</P><I>The Manila Galleon</I> will grip your from the outset and will not leg go until the final denouement! </P>