Dear Reader…
Do you have a passion for justice? Do you enjoy white-knuckled adventure, mystery,
courtroom drama, true love and belly laughs?
If so, then join lawyers Brooks and Bradley in the legal thriller, Maximilian’s
Treasure, a dramatization of a real-life experience I had forty years
ago.
A grizzled old Choctaw man
told my friend and me that he believed that Civil War gold was on his farm in
Mississippi. He believed that
Maximilian, the Emperor of Mexico, sent gold to support the South’s war effort,
and that none other than Jesse James, then a member of the Confederate Cavalry,
was in charge of the shipment. The war
ended when the gold was near his farm and was hidden there. He asked us to help him look for the treasure. This was too far-fetched to believe, but my
friend and I said, “Why not?” We
travelled with him to his farm and had a great day listening to his stories
while we searched with him. You might
think this unusual. It’s not. It’s just another day of law practice in
Mississippi, where the unusual and outlandish is an everyday occurrence.
This was one of many stories
from over forty years of law practice that I am desperate to tell. I have a passion to write great adventures
inspired by these experiences. My best
friend and I were young lawyers defending citizens charged with crimes in
Mississippi. We attracted a bit of
attention because we kept winning cases.
Jack was a loyal friend, an intrepid investigator, and a great
researcher. Together we regularly
accomplished what at first seemed impossible.
Jack died twenty years ago; too young; too soon. I miss him.
I brought him back to life in my novels, Maximilian’s Treasure
and Vampire Defense.
In
Maximilian’s Treasure rumors of hidden
gold fuel a battle over possession of a Choctaw family farm. Two young lawyers, John Brooks and Jackson
Bradley, agree to help the family keep their farm. Early legal success prompts the drive-by
murder of the patriarch of the family. The
grandson chases the suspects whose bodies are found on the farm, scalped. At the same time, clues to a vast treasure
are found on the farm. Jackson, pursued
by fortune seekers, adventurers, an exotic beauty and a homicidal maniac
follows the clues to a Caribbean reef and then to the Chiapas jungle. John stays behind to defend the grandson and
continue the fight for the farm. His
efforts are complicated by arson, murder, race riots, and the realization that
he lost his one true love. The
adventures of John and Jackson rush toward an intertwined triple climax that could
shake the world.
I have many great stories to
tell, but for decades I lacked the proper motivation to write. Every book and
every movie used to have a purpose, a “moral to the story.” I feel that we have lost that purpose with
some of today’s entertainment. I am
motivated to bring back the moral to the story.
That is why I write. Maximilian’s
Treasure is packed with hidden treasures to be discovered.
So, if you love mystery,
adventure, romance, justice, belly laughs and hidden treasures, it’s all
waiting for you in Maximilian’s Treasure. You’ve got to read it!
Love,
James D. Bell
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