Dennis Powers: 6 books

“Kirkus Reviews” summarized: “Maritime historian Powers ("Treasure Ship" and others) offers a series of vignettes from the golden age of American marine salvage. It extended from the end of the Civil War to the decade following World War I. Sail was merging with steam, wooden hulls...

Have you ever seen someone in passing that looks exactly like you, or a friend tells you that she absolutely saw you on another day—but you were out of town? Paul Hastings sees his exact duplicate and is led to the other’s beaten apartment on the wrong side of town. At the same time, a deranged...

In San Jose, Costa Rica, black-market thieves steal priceless Mayan gold artifacts, the gold bugs, from its Gold Museum, the Museo del Oro. Ceci Dunaway is at the time touring the country while on the hunt for stolen pre-Columbian jade artifacts already taken from a Miami exhibit. Fifty, adventurous,...

While people go about their normal lives, an Alaskan-based tsunami storms towards the U.S. West Coast. Based upon the worst tsunami in U.S. history that targeted the continental United States, a sleepy, small town on the Northern California coast – Redwood Bay – lies directly in its strike path....

Gold Hill is a product of the frontier days, when bold men sought golden riches despite ongoing hardships. The 1860 discovery of the famous Gold Hill Pocket, overlooking the present townsite, brought about its name with a gold rush that continued for decades and spilled into the nearby creeks and valleys,...

Captain Dynamite Johnny O'Brien sailed the seven seas for over sixty years, starting in the late 1860s in India and ending in the early 1930s on the U.S. West Coast. This book tells of sailing over the oceans when danger and adventure coexisted every day, tough times, and courageous men in distant...