It’s easy to stay invisible in the Florida Keys – Until it’s not. Mac Travis is trying to live the Keys lifestyle: Fishing, diving and enough salvage work to pay his bills. But trouble has a way of finding him.
Mac Travis went to the Florida Keys to disappear, but his new commercial diving job turns out to be more than he planned. An artifact discovered while working on a bridge pier quickly draws the attention of a real estate tycoon, a Jersey mobster and twin Indian Chiefs all trying to open a casino in the pristine Keys. When his psycho ex-girlfriend tracks him down things get even more interesting.
Mac and Wood find themselves confronted with the troublesome job of repairing a bridge piling supporting one of the iconic bridges spanning the Florida Keys. In the process they discover something unexpected—a cache of silver coins and bars embedded in coral. The pair, along with their archeologist friend Ned, soon realizes the immense historical significance of their discovery—the coins date back to the Civil War.
An electrifying maritime adventure that will plunge you into the depths of the sea and the heart-pounding pursuit of hidden treasure. Prepare to embark on a thrilling journey alongside Mac and Wood as they unearth the secrets of the past, face treacherous adversaries, and dive headfirst into danger.
When a go-fast boat crashes off the Florida Keys, Bill “Wood” Woodson knows trouble isn’t far behind. But this isn’t just another smuggling run gone wrong—the wreck’s survivors are terrorists with a deadly mission: to strike the Boca Chica Naval Air Station and send Key West into chaos
When Bill “Wood” Woodson and Mac Travis stumble upon a bomb hidden in the remote backcountry waters of the Florida Keys, they have no idea they’re about to uncover a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of power—even to the President of the United States.
When three fishermen pull a Square Grouper—fifty pounds of cocaine—from the waters off the Florida Keys, they think they’ve struck it rich. But hidden within the package is more than just drugs—it holds a secret that could alter their lives forever and threaten the very existence of the Keys.
Mac Travis’ life in the Florida Keys is simple—until it isn’t. When a down-on-her-luck trust fund heiress and his wayward deckhand use his boat to poach lobster, the authorities seize everything—his boat, his house, and his peace of mind. But that’s just the beginning.
Mac Travis wakes up battered and broken on a remote beach, his life in ruins and a path of destruction behind him. With his relationship with Mel hanging by a thread, he’s determined to set things right—but trouble in the Florida Keys isn’t hard to find.
Desperate for money and with Alicia’s life on the line, Mac Travis is forced into the world of black-market antiquities. A mysterious dealer offers him a deal he can’t afford to refuse, but there’s a catch—the key to the fortune lies in a relic Mac discovered years ago, one that holds secrets worth killing for.
Minding his own business is what Mac Travis does best until a strong storm coupled with a king tide brings dead fish to his doorstep. Mac investigates the cause, discovering a murder and wreck at a testing station in Florida Bay.
Policy changes can have unintended consequences—and they can be deadly. It’s easy to stay invisible in the Florida Keys. and Mac Travis is doing his best when a simple fishing trip to the Marquesa Keys lands him in the middle of a deadly plot.
Living on an island; fishing, diving, and some salvage work kept him busy—until his past catches up to him. When a famous treasure hunter is murdered, Mac is handed his research of a hundred lost wrecks, but to save a friends family from a crazed competitor he must find the right one—and find it first, before people dear to him start to die.
Mac was content working his trap lines, fishing the seasons, and diving. That all ends when he and his mate find a turtle laden down with fifty kilos of pure cocaine floating in the Gulf Stream. What seemed at the time to be a simple rescue, entangles him in a web of deceit and lies. From Marathon to Key West and on to the Dry Tortugas, Mac has no choice but to find a treasure that is better left alone.
A powerful hurricane heading for the Bahamas sets a deadly plan in motion …
Living on a small island in the Florida Keys is a dream for many. For salvor, diver, and fisherman Mac Travis, though, it’s a way to become invisible. But trouble has a way of finding Mac, who makes a shocking discovery while attempting to save his friends and his boat from the wrath of the storm and deliver desperately needed supplies to the Bahamas.
On New Year’s Day 1959, with Castro on the brink of overthrowing the Batista regime, the soon-to-be-deposed dictator looted the Cuban treasury and loaded it into four B26 Marauder bombers headed for Tampa.
Only three planes landed.
The fourth has never been found, and was rumored to contain three billion dollars in gold.
Out of Sight is Not Out of Mind
Within sight of Marathon, Florida, lies an island left to its own devices. While its harbor is picture-postcard perfect, abandoned and hurricane-ravaged Boot Key has a secret hiding deep in its mangrove tunnels and derelict fishing shacks.
How far would you go to save a place that is a part of you?
When a devastating explosion upsets the delicate ecosystem of the Florida Keys backcountry, Mac Travis is faced with a situation that could ruin his idyllic lifestyle. To stay on the island that has been his refuge, he must work outside the authorities, who want to use the explosion as an excuse to take his home away.
What is the cost of freedom?
When several shipping containers are lost during a tropical storm, an unexpected and deadly chain of events is set in motion.
When Mac Travis witnesses a poacher working lobster traps in the backcountry of the Florida Keys—too near his island home to ignore—he takes action. The traps belong to a friend who enlists Mac to search for the poachers—but along the way, Mac makes a discovery that changes everything.
When a close friend is snatched from his paradise and held for ransom, Mac is thrust into a race against time that will test his skills, courage, and cunning. The kidnappers demand Mac’s knowledge of a long-lost treasure. As Mac delves deeper into the mystery, he uncovers a web of secrets that spans from the sunken wrecks of World War II to the heart of Virgin Islands National Park.
Back home in the Florida Keys, Mac Travis finds a jury summons waiting for him. The case drags him right back into the underbelly of the Keys. Torn between protecting the confidential informant and doing the right thing, Mac is forced to take the law into his own hands.
When a routine Ghost Trap Rodeo turns deadly, Mac Travis is dragged into the most explosive fight for the Florida Keys he’s ever faced.
What should be a simple cleanup turns sinister when Mac, Bear, and Trufante haul up a trap packed with a cache of engineered chemicals capable of destroying entire sections of reef.
Dear sir are you ever going to make Wood’s Ledge into an e book. It is the only one I am missing. Thank you regards Bob Rice rice_5@rogers.com
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Hi Bob, you can get a free copy of Wood’s Ledge when you join my mailing list – https://dl.bookfunnel.com/xa9xkh545m
Many thanks,
Steve
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Hi, Wondering the same thing tried the link in your reply to Bob it is not found and tried the link in book Woods Betrayal but that went to some Asian gambling site instead of a book. I downloaded the audio but I don’t really do that I prefer to read books. Thanks, Kathy
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Hi Kathy – that appears to be an old link. I’ve updated it – please go here for the ebook – https://dl.bookfunnel.com/xa9xkh545m
Thanks.
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Thanks got it now
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Who is the Wood referred to in the titles of the Mac Travis series? I’m in the first and somehow haven’t picked up on the series title name.
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Which book are you reading? Bill “Wood” Woodson was a main character in Wood’s Relic and Wood’s Reef. Telling more would be a spoiler.
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