The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silverΓÇöand one manΓÇÖs obsessive quest to find itΓÇöfrom the New York Times bestselling author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth Roger Dooley wasnΓÇÖt looking for the San Jos├⌐. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a Spanish archive led him to the story of a lifetime,the tale of a great eighteenth-century treasure ship loaded with riches from the New World and destined for Spain. But that shipthe galleon San Jos├⌐met a darker fate. It was drawn into a pitched battle with British ships of war off the coast of Cartagenaand when the smoke clearedthe San Jos├⌐ and its bounty had disappeared into the oceanits coordinates lost to time. Though a diver at heartDooley was an unlikely candidate to find the San Jos├⌐. He had little in the way of serious credentialsyet his tenacity and single-minded devotion to finding and excavating the ship powered him across four decadeseven as he became a man in exile from the country of his birth. As Dooley jousted with famous treasure hunters and well-funded competitorshe slowly homed in on a patch of sea that might contain a three-hundred-year-old shipwreckΓÇöor nothing at all. Neptune’s Fortune is a thrilling adventuretaking readers from great naval battles on the high seas to the sun-soaked shores that nurtured historyΓÇÖs most notorious treasure huntersto the archives that held the secret keys to lost fortune on the ocean floor.