{"product_id":"9780999476116","title":"La Salle's Ghost","description":"\u003cp\u003eLate at night, drifting alone on the Gulf of Mexico, Charlie Sweetwater sits aboard his boat, alone with his thoughts, when from the darkness he hears a man swimming toward him from the middle of nowhere. But not just any man. His name is Julien Dufay, the wealthy French scion of a family-owned petrochemical dynasty headquartered in Houston. Charlie saves the man’s life, but, of course, no good deed ever goes unpunished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Charlie is drawn deeper into Julien’s erratic orbit, he discovers a man possessed. Dufay is consumed by his vision of discovering the site of Fort Saint Louis, the famed—and doomed—17\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century settlement of French explorer, Robert Cavelier de La Salle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks to Julien, and his own restless curiosity, Charlie is pulled into a web of obsession, murder, danger and greed. Julien wants to find the long-lost colony (and the treasure of artifacts buried with it) as a legacy for himself, his family and the greater glory of France. But the project’s ambitious sponsor, Jean-Marc Dufay, is hell-bent on getting at the rich natural gas resources hidden beneath the site, and will think nothing of using his own brother as a pawn to feed his ambitions. Standing in the way is the stubborn old man on whose South Texas ranch Julien and Jean-Marc are converging, along with the rancher’s trio of scurrilous sons, who have their own covert agenda—an agenda that can be lethal to outsiders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlie struggles to make sense of it all, with the help of the beautiful marine archeologist who is excavating La Salle’s shipwreck \u003cem\u003eLa Belle\u003c\/em\u003e in nearby Matagorda Bay. But as he digs deeper into Julien Dufay’s danger-fraught quest, he discovers that history has a way of repeating itself, and that some ghosts just won't stay buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brent Douglass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009001242864,"sku":"9780999476116","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780999476116_p0.jpg?v=1763947188","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780999476116","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}