The Dutchman's Channel

By Lucy Hernandez

In the quiet conservation lab of a Chicago museum, Wayne Bradley uncovers the find of a lifetime: a secret seventeenth-century vellum chart concealed inside the lining of a Dutch merchant portrait.

The document reveals a chain of buried caches along the Mississippi River, hidden by a rogue colonial expedition carrying contraband silver. But the past never stays buried without a price.

When a ruthless antiquities dealer raids Wayne's laboratory at gunpoint, Wayne barely escapes with the map and his life. Desperate to protect the discovery, he heads south and partners with Linda Barnett, a tough, debt-strapped riverboat captain who knows the treacherous waterways better than anyone alive.

Pursued by armed mercenaries down swollen currents and forgotten oxbow channels, Wayne and Linda must decode cryptic maritime ciphers before their pursuers catch up. In a deadly game of cat and mouse from Illinois to the bayous of Arkansas, one wrong turn will consign them-and the truth-to a watery grave.

Full of relentless suspense and authentic historical intrigue, The Dutchman's Channel is a breathless chase into the heart of America's forgotten frontier.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJWKGWHP
• ISBN13: 9798174423954
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"