Non-returnable

Seventeen years ago the story of the discovery of Thomas Jefferson Beale's buried treasure, Boundless Wealth, hit the public, for a while at least. It told of how a disaffected lecturer stumbled on the means to decode Beale's coded letters and, in doing so, find the gold. After unearthing Beale's hidden treasure, he decided to give it all to the descendants of the Arapaho Indians, some of whose ancestors died digging the gold out of the rock at the point of Beale's gun in 1818. But then the gold went missing. Nobody knew what had happened to it, but seventeen years later one or two individuals convinced themselves that the lecturer knew who had taken it and why. Now, his past deeds returned to embroil him in a conspiracy to give up that gold. The problem was, they were convinced he knew where the gold was hidden and were willing to kill to get it. The question was, did he know?