Author : Stephen Parrish
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 073872579X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)
Book Synopsis The Tavernier Stones by : Stephen Parrish
Download or read book The Tavernier Stones written by Stephen Parrish and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the body of seventeenth-century mapmaker Johannes Cellarius floats to the surface of a bog in northern Germany with a 57-carat ruby clutched in his fist, the grisly discovery ignites a deadly twenty-first-century international treasure hunt to unearth the fabled Tavernier stones. The hoard reputedly contains some of the world's most notorious missing jewels, including the 280-carat Great Mogul diamond and the 242-carat Great Table diamond. Scrupulously honest Amish-born cartographer John Graf teams up with outlaw prospector and gemologist David Freeman in a ferocious race to find the treasure and break a secret code that will unravel the centuries-old Tavernier stones mystery. But other fortune hunters, opportunists and criminals alike, are in hot pursuit of the mismatched partners--and they'll stop at nothing to possess the legendary jewels. "Relentlessly fascinating, Stephen Parrish's Tavernier Stones is reminiscent of Dan Brown's Lost Symbol . . . It's one hell of a good time."--Mark Terry, author of The Fallen