Basically, honeymooners are in Bermuda for a dive vacation and discover sunken jewels and drugs and then encounter the local underworld. Decent development of a plot and characters. ' This book started out better than Jaws over the first 150 pages or so. I suppose I was also supposed to learn some history and geography of Bermuda, and stuff about scuba as well. (Also, the guy is sort of a jerk, but, anticipating the movie, the wife is the hottest thing ever.) Just to keep our interest, they also find an unknown cache of gold etc from a Spanish galleon-type thing, created for King Phillip (or whoever's) new bride. But the locals are so much more interesting than the white honeymooners. They find a local who's sympathetic, and the race is on to find it all so they can destroy it before the bad guys can train themselves to get it themselves.

Since they're in Bermuda, there's no useful law, so they can't appeal there. So the bad guys try to get them to get it for them.

Turns out there was a ship that sunk in the 1940's carrying drugs that are now worth millions. While scuba-diving, they stumble across an ampule that contains some sort of drugs (morphine? Heroine?). It did really sound more like a movie than a book. ' Perfectly acceptable for car-listening, but nothing great. ' I probably read this when I was 11 or 12 and I only remember two things from it: the female character bending over so that her bikini-covered breasts' honey-coloredness became visible, and the word 'ampules.' This is the kind of book you should read when you're 11 because you'll get much more out of it. I'll try one more time and get back to you. I really wanted to like it, simply because of the Bermuda connection. There was a slightly confused scene right at the start that contains a description of a beach and it was just all wrong. ' I didn't really give this one a chance. Particularly enjoyable if you are intrigued by the notion of finding treasure. ' I reaad this book decades ago, but could never get it out of my mind because the ending was such a shocker! ' - Karen, ' I was really disappointed by the ending. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.

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