The captivating true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sank with more than one billion dollars in gold and silver—and a man's obsessive quest to find it—by the bestselling author of the Sunday Times, Roger Dooley.

Roger Dooley wasn’t searching for the San Jose. But a chance discovery in a dusty library archive in Spain in the 1980s led him into a lifelong story—the journey of a ship that amassed a mountain of wealth from the New World for a highly anticipated delivery to the King of Spain nearly three centuries earlier. However, this ship, the galleon San Jose, never reached its destination. Instead, the Spanish treasure salvage was caught in a fierce battle with British warships off the coast of Cartagena. When the smoke cleared, the San Jose had disappeared into the ocean.

Although he was a passionate diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find the San Jose. Half-Cuban by descent, he lived a life spanning from the fields of Brooklyn to the shores of Cuba during the dawn of the revolution, where he helped establish the diving program of a newborn country and made films with Jacques Cousteau before ending up on international watchlists and being barred from the United States. Dooley didn’t have many formal credentials, but his persistence and single-minded dedication to find the San Jose led him to discoveries once thought impossible. As he clashed with famous treasure hunters and well-funded competitors, Dooley ultimately identified an area of the sea that could contain a three-century-old shipwreck—or nothing at all.

"Neptune's Fortune" introduces the reader to a rare world through the eyes of a quirky protagonist whose efforts would inspire presidents’ hopes and fulfill a nation's dreams. This story of courage and treasure is a unique narrative of a lost fortune and a decades-long quest to shed light on the treasure resting at the bottom of the sea.

Pages: 384, Dimensions: 16.2x16.2cm