Key West Camouflage: Hide in Plain Sight

“Wayne Gales is almost as interesting as his rough-and-tumble one-time treasure hunter Bric Wahl. But he’s taken his experiences and folded them into a series of fictional adventure that makes for thrilling mysteries and white-knuckle entertainment.”
-Byron Rupert McCafferty, Online Critics Corner

This is a sequel to Treasure Key, the first novel in the Bric Wahl Mystery Series. A lot of Treasure Key was quasi-autobiographical, stuff that Wayne Gales pulled out of his head and from his heart. With Key West Camouflage he pulled the story “out of the blue sky (or my ass).” It’s much different than Treasure Key – a little more action, a little more sex, a lot more mystery. Gales drew on past experiences, including his many trips to Baja California as part of several race teams in events like the Baja 1000. This second slam-bam adventure about a former Navy Seal, professional treasure diver and rock and roll bass player named Russell Bricklin “Bric” Wahl gives a closer look at a penniless, nearly homeless, single father, living hand to mouth in Key West, working on a salvage boat – until he found three large Civil War era gold bars. That made things different.

A former Key West resident. Wayne Gales spent seven years there as a director in the hospitality business, where he spent endless hours in the Key West public library pouring over microfilm records of his families’ conch roots. Wayne currently lives in Melbourne, Florida with his wife Tina. He has published a series of five books, all a combination of contemporary and historical fiction with a Key West theme. A world traveler, Wayne has visited 24 countries on five continents and all fifty states. An avid fisherman snorkeler, gourmet chef, former classic rock and country guitarist, he has also raced cars, trucks and motorcycles in Baja and grew up as a rodeo cowboy. He has five children and twelve grandchildren.