Ben Slade is a math professor in his mid-forties at a prestigious New England university, living his complex but basically boring life. Enter Marie, a beautiful French graduate student, who enlists him to help her decipher the mathematical problem embedded in a Baroque poetry text she is working on. Ben helps Marie solve the problem and they celebrate in friendly fashion. The next morning Ben Slade finds himself embroiled in a murder. It turns out that the French text provides the location of a buried treasure from the 17th century. But Ben and Marie aren't alone on the trail to the treasure. The Marseilles mafia makes a bid for the secret of the text. And an unknown killer stalks them as they flee in Ben's sailboat. Ben realizes too late that nothing is as it appears and that someone close to him is plotting his demise.
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