Heir Today... — J.J. Lamb

How far would you go to retrieve a quarter-million dollars, or more?
Investigative journalists Paige and Max Alper drop everything, including their jobs, to hopscotch from San Francisco to San Diego to New York to Hong Kong on a chancy paper chase.
Along the way they're pursued, trapped, stripped naked, kidnapped, and set afire while seeking an inheritance from Paige's black sheep uncle, whose at-sea journals provide the impetus.
A simple treasure hunt turns into an international adventure of intrigue, courage, death, and revenge.