- American adventurer gets involved in archaeological artifact smuggling and treasure hunting in Mexico.
- An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
- The insurance adjuster Al Colby is interrogated by the Mexican authorities about the trail of dead bodies behind him. When the personnel from the American Consulate arrive to talk to Colby, he tells them that his journey had begun in Havana, Cuba, where he was short of money. Colby is contacted by Thomas Berrien, a crooked collector of antiquities who offers one thousand dollars to him to travel by ship to Oaxaca, Mexico, smuggling a small package in with him. During the voyage, Thomas dies in his cabin, and Colby opens the package and finds three parchments and one medal of stone. When he is contacted by Thomas' rival, the archaeologist Jefferson, he discovers that the parchments contain information about a hidden treasure in the Zapotecan ruins of Mitla.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Colby, vacationing in Chile (he is fluent in Spanish) is paid a too large a sum of money to ignore, in order to smuggle an unknown package to Peru. (He should have known better, but a thousand dollars is a thousand dollars.)
Before long, his client is dead and a cadre of people are trying to get their hands on the mysterious package, which is alleged to contain information leading to an ancient Incan treasure. Can Colby decipher the message and get there first, or will he survive to get there at all?
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