Crown · New release
Neptune's Fortune
The Billion Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Crown · World History
Released January 27, 2026 · ISBN 9780593594179
About the book
One man's forty-year hunt for the San José, a Spanish galleon carrying a billion dollars — and the uneasy question of who owns a sunken empire.
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