“I fell in love with THE FISHHOOK REBELLION almost from the start of the read.” — Readers’ Favorite 5-Star Review – Jamie Michelle

Dive Into an Adventure 175 Years in the Making

It’s the antebellum days of 1847: Correspondent Samantha Swift’s voyage from New York to Hawai’i to return a kidnapped island girl turns deadly as she struggles to survive aboard a transport ship at the center of the very opium and sex trafficking ring she is determined to expose. From a Five Points brothel in Manhattan to the howling graveyard of Cape Horn to the cyclone-of-the-century off Robinson Crusoe Island in the Pacific someone wants Swift dead – and will do anything to make that happen.

Meanwhile secret agent Jack Dancer’s around-the-world odyssey is driven by orders from President James K. Polk to discover Napoleon’s long-lost Maltese treasure before an unknown foreign power finds the trove – and buys domination in the Pacific – a domination that could threaten the new California territory. Duty propels Dancer from the same New York brothel to a stolen notebook in Paris to a Christmas tryst in Cairo and headlong into cutthroats in Zanzibar and reeking death temples in Tahiti.

But as Swift and Dancer’s separate trails of danger and death interweave nothing can stop the ruthless and murderous drive of their enemies to achieve their ends. Nothing – that is – until Swift and Dancer meet up in the “whaler’s hellhole of the Pacific:” Lahaina, Maui. There they are forced to put aside their mutual dislikes – after they uncover a secret so explosive it could destroy America’s fragile young republic forever. Against all odds Swift and Dancer follow an elusive trail stalked by a sadistic killer determined to beat them to one of the world’s greatest treasures. Only to find themselves in a lost world both wondrous and horrifying where the Hawaiian chiefs have long guarded an ancient secret – until now.

“The author takes the historical adventure genre seriously...If you enjoy reading Clive Cussler, this book is the one for you.” — Readers’ Favorite 5-Star Review – Vincent Dublado

“The action is nonstop while the pace is breathtaking...THE FISHHOOK REBELLION is a novel worthy of the tag of being a bestseller in a class of its own.” — Readers’ Favorite 5-Star Review – Essien Asian

“Dan Gooder Richard has a keen sense of pace and suspense, and that pays dividends in this fantastic adventure novel.” — Readers’ Favorite 5-Star Review – K. C. Flynn