Riptide

by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

standalone novel
published 1998

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A centuries-old, cursed pirate’s treasure, valued at over $2 billion, lies deep within the treacherous waters off the coast of Maine. Men who have attempted to unearth the fortune have suffered gruesome deaths. Will a high-tech expedition meet the same fate?

Reputed to hide a vast hoard of treasure, the Water Pit has claimed the lives of all who dared enter and kept its secret safe. That is until a massive hi-tech recovery expedition launches an assault on the deadly edifice. But as the Water Pit starts to divulge its secrets, so men begin to die.

In 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky fortress.

Now a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark on the perfect operation to unlock the labyrinth’s mysteries. First the computers fail. Then crewmen begin to die. The island has guarded its secrets for centuries, and it isn’t letting them go… without a fight.