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Dead Man's Curse
Paperback
Publisher: Mike Johansen
Published: Nov 4 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
For forty years, Hank Mercer chased a dying man's whisper: a mountain in Mexico's Sierra Madre called El Tecolote, the Owl, where Aztec priests hid the last of Moctezuma's gold in 1520 and bound it with a curse. Hank gave up the hunt for the wife he loved. Then, eleven months after her funeral, a map drawn in blood falls out of her Bible.
Hank rides north with his oldest friend Clyde, a skeptical geologist armed with LiDAR, and a cocky young climbing guide. They carry metal detectors, thermal drones, and satellite phones. None of it prepares them for what waits beyond the ancient stone markers: drums that beat beneath the earth and stop when you speak, horses that stare at the mountain all night, a voice from the river calling a dead mother's pet name, and a carved stone that loses one notch every time a man dies.
The mountain gives each of them exactly what he wants. Then it collects.
Dead Man's Curse is a supernatural thriller about greed, grief, and the price of the one thing you promised you would let go.
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