Quest for the Rose by Philip Mongeau

About the book

On a sailing holiday in The Bahamas, Peter Magyar, an auto-parts magnate, and his young girlfriend, Audrey Whiddon, discover an emerald-encrusted golden chalice that leads them through a tale of greed and sabotage, love and jealousy. This fascinating search for the treasure of Nuestra Señora de la Rosa, lost in the great hurricane of 1715, joins four unlikely souls in a quest for riches. They experience an attack by pirates and a kidnapping, amidst personal conflicts between members of the crew in this action adventure.

About the author

Philip Mongeau is the senior partner in one of Canada’s most successful graphic design and photography studios. Since founding Mongeau, Bacon, Chen and Associates in 1973, he has earned numerous international awards for photography and multimedia.
He has published articles on diving and sailing and written promotional copy for many national advertisers. Fascinated by life around him, he has written political opinions that have appeared in letters to Time Magazine, The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, and The Evening Telegram.

As an experienced blue water sailor and underwater videographer, Philip has filled this story with colorful images, delivered in accurate detail at a fast pace. The reader will experience the feeling of sailing with dolphins in the Gulf Stream, gliding weightlessly through an underwater kingdom, and the fear of sabotage in a watery world.
He lives with his wife in Montreal, Quebec, and Siesta Key, Florida.