Quicksilver: Mystery in the Wild (The Forensic Geology Series Book 1)

Quicksilver: Mystery in the Wild (The Forensic Geology Series Book 1)

<b> </b>** <b>Harrowing Hunt in the California Gold Country</b> **<br />A young man disappears in the Mother Lode wilderness. He leaves behind a gold-flecked rock and a vial of toxic mercury. He is a misfit in the modern world, a throwback to the Gold Rush days.<br /><br />A venture capitalist--whose gold country is Silicon Valley--hires forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws to track his missing brother.<br /><br />Following one of the 'lost rivers' of California, the geologists plunge into the dark history of the legendary lands, into the dark past of the brothers, into a poisonous sibling feud that threatens both lives and the land.<br /><br />And they are not the only ones on the hunt.<br /><br /><b>** Revised and expanded edition, September 2015</b>