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It's the Chad Duke Show. And as you know, we have the Whale of a Tale Maritime at Book Club, which has been absolutely fabulous,

and we've read a lot of good books. This one, my wife walked into Duck's Cottage bookstore,

Waterfront Bookstore in Duck, North Carolina. And this book was sitting on the shelf, and she said,

this is about pirates and shipwrecks and sunken gold. Would you like, I said, yes, I didn't even need to know what it was about. And once we cracked it open, it's the best book that we've read thus far. No disrespect to everything that came before. The author, generous enough to join us now. Julian Sancton, Neptune's Fortune is the book, the billion dollar shipwreck and the ghosts of the Spanish Empire. Julian, thank you so much for joining us today, buddy. How are you? Good. It's such a pleasure to be here. Thank you. Man, I don't even know where to begin. Like this book, it's a history book. It's a pirate book. It's espionage culture. I don't even, the research alone let me start there when you the idea

for this book you go through it at the beginning on how it came to be and just running down

this incredibly complex character Roger Dooley which I'm looking forward to speaking with you about

as opposed to you writing or researching?

Like how much of it was research and how much of it was you physically writing?

Because I have to imagine the researching component of this book was insurmountable.

Yeah.

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