Mallory's Gold

Third novel in the Lord Ogma series. In late 1864 the Confederate raider CSS Shenandoah seized a United States merchantman in the Indian Ocean. There was no cargo aboard but the brig-rigged prize was ballasted with bilge covered gold ingots. The gold was a payment made by the collective imperialist European nations to the Chinese emperor for land and trade concessions. When the American Civil War ended, the gold was in the custody of Stephen Russell Mallory, former Confederate Secretary of the Navy and was hidden in Florida. The last twentieth Century POTUS wanted the Gold. The Chinese “Paramount Leader” wanted the gold. Their respective personal covert operatives fight a violent clandestine war to discover and possess untold billions in gold, while evading American intelligence and law enforcement and both parties evading the Chinese mafia, the Triad. The novel includes extensive but little known historical facts as an unfolding of the conflict takes place.