ABOUT THE AUTHOR –
One of the greatest treasure stories of our time is that of the discovery of The Nuestra Senora de Atocha, by Mel Fisher with over $400,000,000 in precious artifacts, gold and emeralds onboard. Wouln’t the modern day pirate and dreamer in all of us like to have been involved in that adventure of finding and salvaging the Spanish galleon which sank off the Florida Keys during a mighty and violent hurricane in 1622? Bobby Ferguson, the author was. . . You can now experience that great adventure vicariously from the comfort of your armchair by enjoying this novel – Fool’s Paradise.
Bobby Ferguson (Bobby McAllister), a native of the City of Dreams, Savannah, Georgia, and former United States Marine, attended Pepperdine University in California, where he studied Spanish history, Post Secondary Education, Admiralty and salvage law and Aviation. He was instrumental in the salvaging of the Atocha with Mel Fisher in 1985, as well as his subsequent quests. Along with his friend, (The beach bum lawyer) they raised several million dollars from happy investors to keep the successful salvage process in operation.
Although Fool’s Paradise is a novel, and the characters are fictional, they are based on actual participants and events.
Are you prepared to toss the dice, and pay the price to . . .Take a trip to Fool’s Paradise?
“Paradise is not a place, it’s just a state of mind,
Where love can offer up much more than life expects to find.”
~ Bobby Ferguson ~
