Book 2 of The Moroni Smith Adventures Who would want to steal the Gold Plates? Anyone Moroni Smith, Orrin Porter Rockwell VII and Gadget Gunderson, of the Church Special Projects division are engaged in yet another fingernail-biting adventure as they try to recover the stolen Gold Plates from a splinter faction claiming divine right and stewardship of the legendary Gold Plates. Their adventures take them from the rocks and caves of Southern Utah to the lush hills of the Finger Lakes District in New York state as they follow the trail left for them by the megalomaniacal leadership of The Brethren of the Lord.