Jeremy Wheale’s well-ordered life is torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit-man. The killer’s bait was a family heirloom – a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to Mexico and the wild tropical rain forests of Yucatan. 

          Here, in dense jungle, he helps two archaeologists locate the rest of a fabled hoard of gold – treasure from Uaxuanoc, the centuries-old lost city of the Mayas. But his brother’s enemies are on Wheale’s trail, and with them are the Chicleros, a vicious band of convict mercenaries….