Tim Champlin: 4 books

In 1849 three routes existed to the California gold fields: wagon train; around Cape Horn; and across the Gulf of Mexico, overland through Panama and up the west coast. Three parties take one route each—two men fleeing a murder charge, another man pursuing them, and a Melungian family from East Tennessee. How their lives touch each other is the focus of this gold rush adventure.

In the ruins of a Scottish dungeon, an archeology professor finds the journal of a long-dead knight revealing the location of a vanished treasure. An 1898 shadow organization is also after the treasure and Professor McGinnis' life. Marcus Flood, former monk, becomes the professor’s bodyguard. With the professor’s niece, they go after the treasure deep in the American southwest.

A gang of counterfeiters plans to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln from its Springfield tomb on election night, 1876, then demand ransom from the Illinois governor. Sterling Packard, undercover Secret Service agent, infiltrates the gang and tries to thwart the plot. When the train bearing Lincoln’s...

Marcel Dupre, condemned to the penal colony at French Guiana, writes an expose of life in the Foreign Legion and in the penal colony. He finally escapes by sea and reaches the U.S. where he hopes to have his book published. Agents of the shaky French government will do anything to destroy him and his expose. A Wells Fargo messenger is dispatched to find and assist him.