Neptune’s Fortune

For more than three centuries the Spanish galleon San José remained a mystery, lost in battle and vanished in the pitiless deep ocean. Whoever found this shipwreck and its legendary treasure—among the many searching for it—would find their name etched in history. How fortunate for us that one man’s obsession with the San José led to its discovery, and that master storyteller Julian Sancton has chronicled this triumph. Neptune’s Fortune is a real-life drama, a maritime riddle, a swashbuckling adventure, and above all, a riveting tale

Susan Casey, New York Times bestselling author of The Underworld

Sancton is a masterful storyteller, and he has struck gold—pun intended—with Neptune’s Fortune. Through extraordinary research across three continents and with a journalist’s eye for the telling detail, he has penned a rollicking tale of buccaneers, shady treasure hunters and sea battles both past and present. Readers are in for a rare treat

Scott Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia

Of all the prizes slumbering upon the world’s seabeds, no shipwreck has stirred more mystery, intrigue, or controversy than the galleon San Jose. In these briskly-paced pages, Julian Sancton takes us from moldering Spanish archives to the murk of the Caribbean to tell the thrilling story of how one quixotic, eccentric, and thoroughly obsessed sleuth stubbornly defied the odds to locate this most legendary of underwater bounties. Neptune’s Fortune is about treasure and the subculture of treasure seekers, but more importantly, it reminds us of the deeper and more satisfying riches that come embedded within a splendid historical tale that’s been researched meticulously and told exceptionally well

Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of The Wide Wide Sea