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Al Colby should never have agreed to smuggle the package from Chile to Peru. Now one man’s dead, two beautiful women have betrayed him, and a couple of gunmen are hot on his trail. All because of an ancient Quechua manuscript pointing to the hiding place of a priceless hoard of gold, lost for centuries. Now the race is on — by train, by plane, by motorboat and by mule — first to find the treasure and then to escape with it alive...

• First publication in 45 years!
• From the bestselling author of TO CATCH A THIEF, which became the classic Hitchcock movie (now being remade by Paramount Pictures)

"Vivid authenticity...a sort of buried-treasure legend for adults."

— Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review

"Action, suspense and excitement...pure escape."

— San Francisco Chronicle

"Al Colby, Mr. Dodge's resourcefully drawn private detective, is fast becoming our leading expert on South American skullduggery...Good, solid stuff."

— The New Yorker

"A fast game of cross and double-cross."

— New York Herald Tribune