The Secret Mission of Thomas Jefferson Beale: Intrigue and Hidden Treasure -- With Beale Code 3 Solved - Paperback

A Hidden Treasure With

Two Centuries of Mystery ...

Who was Thomas Jefferson Beale? He was a man of mystery, a born leader, an adventurer - and the love child of President Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress, Sally Hemings. The Secret Mission of Thomas Jefferson Beale is a unique combination of fact and fiction, in which the author recreates Beale's world, in order to set the stage for his exciting revelations about the legend of Beale's buried treasure. After twenty-five years of research, author Larry Hinson has cracked the legendary Beale Code 3, which gives the names of the twenty-nine men who rode west with Beale in 1817, and never returned to collect the cache of gold, silver, and jewels still hidden in Montvale, Virginia. Providing fascinating reading to historians, treasure-seekers, and anyone who loves intrigue and adventure, The Secret Mission of Thomas Jefferson Beale boldly speculates about Beale's real motivation, the circumstances of his life, and the important mission he may have been entrusted with by his father, President Thomas Jefferson.

Larry Hinson is a native of Monroe, North Carolina. The son of a harness maker, he's an ex-Marine with BS and JD degrees from the University of North Carolina. He is currently working on the sequel to The Secret Mission of Thomas Jefferson Beale.