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MWSA Review
Typhoon Coast by Mark Clifford is part mystery with mystical, fantastical twists around every corner. Trent McShane is the main character, introduced as a ten-year-old grieving the loss of his mother. Trent’s best friend is Eddie Thompson, who has a wild and vivid imagination and a penchant for entertaining others. The boys hear about the Golden Lily Treasure, buried in the jungle of the Philippine Islands.
With a supporting cast of dozens of odd characters and unusual places, Trent and Eddie’s adventures have them enlisting in the Marines. In time they are both deployed to the Philippines. The hunt for treasure intensifies but is thwarted by the eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Is the coveted treasure lost?
This surrealistic story is sometimes hard to follow. However, the author gives a reader a realistic look at the difficult trek through a tropical jungle when time is of the essence in searching for what is lost. Complications and confrontations occur when Trent realizes that he’s not the only one seeking the Golden Lily Treasure.
Review by Nancy Panko (June 2023)
Author's Synopsis
Ten-year-old Trent McShane watches in horror as his beautiful young mother is swept away from California’s Typhoon Coast into the unforgiving wild blue Pacific, never to be seen again. Lost and bewildered, Trent falls under the spell of class clown Eddie Thompson, who has a wanderlust for treasure hunts—in particular, the infamous World War II Golden Lily Treasure, buried on the other side of the ocean, deep in the wild green Philippine jungle.Together, Trent and Eddie follow childhood’s illusions of grandeur through San Francisco, then Marines in the vast Philippine mountains. Mount Pinatubo explodes with apocalyptic fury, but does it take the Golden Lily Treasure with it? Eddie and Trent are not alone in the hunt. The trillions in treasure could afford the US government incredible power in international affairs and bankroll the nation’s black operations. It’s all fair game.
Format(s) for review: Paper and Kindle
Review Genre: Fiction—Mystery/Thriller
Number of Pages: 290
Word Count: 85,000