Embedded: A Most Improbable Treasure Hunt

Chase Warren, PhD. — Archeology Professor and NYU Faculty Member, loved by his students is lecturing today on the origins and purposes of Ancient Coinage. If anyone could make Numismatics interesting to an audience of semi fertile minds Chase can… and by the response of the wide-eyed expressions down front he’s succeeding. Unbeknownst to him, in 72-hours everything in his well-structured bachelor life will change. The cause: his examination of a crudely drawn sketch on a well-preserved lunch bag. The results: possibly treasure. There remains a single obstacle to the inevitable changes in his life—the behavior of his roommate, Atilla. Attila — A tuxedo breed cat that shares Chase’s flat, located within a stones throw of the South St. Seaport. Attila has a never-changing ritual wandering from one ‘pillow-throne’ windowsill to another observing the goings-on of the street below. Always fixated, on the opposite corner where the Crows Rest is situated. It is the neighborhood heirloom of bygone days when drinking establishments dotted each corner near the docks. It opened in 1873 when locals, along with sailors and stevedores took their rations and where the professor has been a regular since moving into his apartment a few years ago. (Historical fiction - 292 pages)