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Dead Current: A Lost Gold Action Adventure Thriller
The river doesn’t forget.
The final page of When the Levee Breaks left a man clinging to a charred timber, swept down the Missouri and given up for dead. The river gave him back.
Two years later, a quiet hand walks onto a flood-pump crew outside Devynn, Kansas, with a new name, a face the river remade, and the one thing he carried out of the the last living claim on thirteen tons of raw Montana gold — dug from a Big Belt gulch in 1864, sealed aboard the steamboat Saturn, and held by the riverbed for a hundred and sixty years.
He isn’t the only one with a claim.
Gloria Masterson — ninety-one, brilliant, and running out of time — has watched the wreck from her window since 1960. Sixty-six years building the machinery of its the companies, the crane, the men. She will spend any life but her own to raise it.
Between them stand Sam and Pete Gregory, whose family farm sits directly above the wreck — and whose levee is the only thing holding back the biggest crest in a generation. When the dig goes wrong, the water doesn’t just come for the gold. It comes for everything.
A river thriller with the pace of a heist and a heart as wide as the Missouri — for readers of Clive Cussler’s lost-treasure adventures and William Kent Krueger’s heartland storytelling.
DEAD CURRENT is Book Four of the Point of No Return Adventures. It stands completely alone — and if you rode the river in WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS, this is the reckoning that’s been drifting downstream ever since.
Some treasure is buried. Some is kept. The river knows the difference.
The Point of No Return When the Levee Breaks · Ultralight Girl · The Last Zeppelin · Dead Current
The final page of When the Levee Breaks left a man clinging to a charred timber, swept down the Missouri and given up for dead. The river gave him back.
Two years later, a quiet hand walks onto a flood-pump crew outside Devynn, Kansas, with a new name, a face the river remade, and the one thing he carried out of the the last living claim on thirteen tons of raw Montana gold — dug from a Big Belt gulch in 1864, sealed aboard the steamboat Saturn, and held by the riverbed for a hundred and sixty years.
He isn’t the only one with a claim.
Gloria Masterson — ninety-one, brilliant, and running out of time — has watched the wreck from her window since 1960. Sixty-six years building the machinery of its the companies, the crane, the men. She will spend any life but her own to raise it.
Between them stand Sam and Pete Gregory, whose family farm sits directly above the wreck — and whose levee is the only thing holding back the biggest crest in a generation. When the dig goes wrong, the water doesn’t just come for the gold. It comes for everything.
A river thriller with the pace of a heist and a heart as wide as the Missouri — for readers of Clive Cussler’s lost-treasure adventures and William Kent Krueger’s heartland storytelling.
DEAD CURRENT is Book Four of the Point of No Return Adventures. It stands completely alone — and if you rode the river in WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS, this is the reckoning that’s been drifting downstream ever since.
Some treasure is buried. Some is kept. The river knows the difference.
The Point of No Return When the Levee Breaks · Ultralight Girl · The Last Zeppelin · Dead Current
290 pages, Paperback
Published August 25, 2026
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