La Salle's ghost : a novel /
by Arceneaux, Miles [author.].
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BookPublisher: Nacogches, TX : Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2013; �2013Edition: First edition.Description: xiii, 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.ISBN: 1622880277 (paperback) :; 9781622880270 (paperback) :.Subject(s): Shipwrecks -- Fiction | Murder -- Fiction | Murder | Shipwrecks | Texas -- Fiction | Gulf Coast (Tex.) -- Fiction | Texas | Texas -- Gulf Coast | Suspense fiction | Mystery fiction | FictionSummary: Drifting silently on the water about forty nautical miles off the Texas coast, Charlie Sweetwater sits aboard his boat, alone with his thoughts, when from the darkness he hears a man swimming toward him. But not just any man. His name is Julien Dufay, the wealthy French scion of a family-owned petrochemical dynasty headquartered in Houston. Charlie plucks the exhausted Frenchman from the Gulf of Mexico and delivers him back to his rarified world. But of course, no good deed ever goes unpunished.
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"Although this book relies on real events, it is a work of fiction"--Author's note.
Drifting silently on the water about forty nautical miles off the Texas coast, Charlie Sweetwater sits aboard his boat, alone with his thoughts, when from the darkness he hears a man swimming toward him. But not just any man. His name is Julien Dufay, the wealthy French scion of a family-owned petrochemical dynasty headquartered in Houston. Charlie plucks the exhausted Frenchman from the Gulf of Mexico and delivers him back to his rarified world. But of course, no good deed ever goes unpunished.
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