[1] He later claimed it was written in seven days for $250 in order to pay a tax bill after he had had a nervous breakdown.

[6] Historican Renn Lundigan hunts for treasure off the Great Barrier Reef.

Renn has to deal with islander Johnny Akimoto, gambling house owner Manny Mannix and beautiful young scientist Pat Mitchell.

The Argus said "in spite of a tendency to the rather slick "Randy Stone" radio style, it is a bright, exciting yarn, guaranteed to take your mind off workaday cares.

"[7] The same magazine later said it was "one of the first novels written by this world wide, best-seller author and long before he found his metier in the by-ways of Roman Catholicism," adding the book "only goes to prove how far a novelist with what it takes can travel in seven years.