Chains of Gold

The Ben Gannon Series, Book 4

De: John McKinna

Narrado por: Jamie Renell

Greed, drug trafficking, kidnapping, and murder

The Spanish galleon Arista sank in 1539 due to a storm and the heavy weight of its cargo. The ship had been carrying Aztec golden treasure: chains, goblets, plates, statues, lamps, ceremonial swords, bricks, bars, and coins, all of solid Aztec gold. Much of the gold, however, had been thrown overboard trying to save the ship.

Having read a portion of its log, deep sea divers Ben Gannon and Eugene McCluskey were convinced by the descendants of the ship's owner to recover it and its bounty. When the treasure proved to be illusive, the job became treacherous with twists and turns that include greed, drug trafficking, kidnapping, and murder.

©2020 John McKinna (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

Excellent Deep Sea Diving Series ...

I’ve just completed the four books in John McKinna’s Ben Gannon series and they are all very good. The books are Crash Dive, Tiger Reef, Shark Lake and Chains of Gold. The character of Ben Gannon reminds me of a cross somewhere between the very first Dewey Andreas in Power Down and Nick Sullivan’s Boone Fischer. Gannon does deep sea recovery. Sometimes working on oil rigs in the ocean and sometimes diving for gold it makes no difference there is trouble around. He and his live in girlfriend are very likable characters.
I truly enjoyed all four books. I found them very entertaining and for someone who has never been scuba diving I’ve learned enough to know I don’t belong in the ocean for any reason whatsoever!
Jamie Renell does a great job narrating.
This entire series is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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Excellent diving story!

This is a story in which technical details match what's really going on! I've read a few diving books over many years & this is the first one that wasn't full of fanciful imaginary diving details. I was a commercial diver for 25 years, an air diving supervisor (not mixed gas or saturation, although I had been trained in both), & in this book, ALL the math, gas mixes (although I never heard of a hydrogen-based decompression gas--?), procedures, etc., were right on! I started diving after the USN & US Army, in the 1980's so some of what I learned is probably obsolete but this is a good adventure story with details that make sense, in spite of some nasty characters (which, thankfully, are fictitious, im sure). Great story with a humorous ending!