After Rick Travis, his son, Mike, and shipmate Yorgo arrive in Gibraltar on their broken-down yacht, they meet Jasper Wells. A retired American soldier who lives on an old power boat on the sea, he tells Mike the story of lost Spanish gold, a tale that begins before the Spanish Civil War and ends after World War II. Information Jasper learned at the American military attache office in Madrid indicates that all the Spanish gold reserves were not transferred to the Soviets. Some of the gold was even being misappropriated by Republican leaders as late as 1936. A thrilling story of international crime, Death by Gold is a modern take on the quest to recover mythical sources of riches from the past."