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Larry Weill is back with a novel based on the saga of Robert Gordon, a British Loyalist who fled the violence of the American Revolution for the relative safety of Canada. Legend tells us that somewhere en route, he hid a massive cache of gold worth more than six million dollars.Over a century later, the famous woodsman known as Adirondack French Louie was thrown into the middle of a search for Gordon s treasure. What he found surprised him, but when he passed away the secret cache was almost lost to history once again.The treasure sat, almost forgotten, for another 100 years before a pair of friends set out to unravel the 230-year-old mystery. In the process, they find themselves mixed up in a cryptic maze of ancient maps, skeletons, phantom e-mail clues, and cunning adversaries.

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Larry Weill has woven a masterful tale of the mysterious 1804 silver dollar, coined in the Philadelphia mint under duplicitous circumstances and immediately hidden for posterity to protect the mint director's family honor. It was a priceless cache that was never supposed to be found. The hiding spot for this treasure was carefully conceived and meticulouslyconstructed. Tens of thousands of people would walk directly past the sitewithout suspecting a thing. The very size and nature of the concealmentspace would ensure its safety from ever being compromised. And so itwould be for over one hundred fifty years.the treasure may have remained hidden forever if not for the involvementof two young men who recently gained notoriety for finding the RobertGordon treasure on Lake Champlain in Adirondack Trail of Gold. As theybattle a lawless adversary committed to claiming the treasure for himself,they must also negotiate mind-bending riddles and fake clues in obscurehistorical documents, all shrouding the path that leads to one of theAdirondacks' most historic sites.In Marcy's Shadow is the follow-up to Adirondack Trail of Gold by LarryWeill, the best-selling author of Excuse Me, Sir...Your Socks Are On Fire,Pardon Me, Sir...There s A Moose In Your Tent, and Forgive Me, Ma'am...Bears Don't Wear Blue.

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