Porknockers

By Dr Duane Charles Anderson

A remittance man (Roy Keehn) accidently discovers a rough diamond on a remote beach in Galapagos Islands. He recruits two porknockers (free lance diamond hunters from Guyana) to help find the source. Unbeknownst to him two other unsavory x-military commandos (Carson Watts and Diego Hoyos) overhear a couple of geologists at a bar in Puerto Villamil talking about diamond hunting. They decide to get in on the action as a means of supplementing income from their illegal sea cucumber fishing operation off the island of Fernandina. Diego uses a sniper rifle to kill the geologists and blows up their boat in Tagus Cove along with the crew. Shelly Kelly is finishing up her project in Peru (see series Volume 3, Illness Dance), when archaeologist Greg Lohman (Dewhurst Museum) invites her to visit the Galapagos Islands to see the first definitive proof that the Inca reached the remote islands in pre-contact times. After the amazing discovery of an Inca colony on the island of Santiago, they learn that two scientists looking for Kimberlite Pipes (source of diamonds) are missing in Bolivar Channel. The project geologist (Ted Ellis) belatedly receives a letter from his geology professor indicating that he and his colleague are headed for Tagus Cove to look for diamonds. Fearing the worst the archaeology crew drops everything and heads for the island of Isabella where they find the shark-eaten torso of one of the geologists floating in Tagus Cove. When Roy stumbles upon Carson's sea cucumber camp Diego finds out he knows about the diamonds and tries to blow up Roy and his boat with C-4, but Roy discovers the plot and escapes by sailing into a storm. Roy returns to Tagus Cove where he finds the porknockers and the archaeology crew. They send him for help but he runs into Carson and Diego and they blow up his boat-this time with an anti-tank rocket. Carson and Diego proceed to Tagus Cove intent on killing the porknockers and other witnesses and collect as many diamonds as they can. When the two trained killers arrive on the island of Isabella Shelly and the crew are forced defend themselves with six-hundred-year-old artifacts left behind by the Incas.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478394579
• ISBN13: 9781478394570
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"