The Vivero Letter is a novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 written by English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 author Desmond Bagley

Desmond Bagley

Desmond Bagley , was a British journalist and novelist principally known for a series of best-selling thrillers...

, and was first published in 1968

1968 in literature

The year 1968 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Dean R. Koontz's first novel, Star Quest is published....

. It was also made into a film in 1998 of the same name

The Vivero Letter

The Vivero Letter is an Adventure Movie starring Robert Patrick, Fred Ward and Tom Poster. This movie is based on the 1968 novel The Vivero Letter by Desmond Bagley.-Plot:...

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Plot

Jeremy Wheale's brother is murdered by a mob hit man. Involved in the tragedy is a family heirloom, a sixteenth century gold tray. In confronting this situation, Wheale goes from Devon, England to Mexico and finally to the tropical rain forests of the Yucatan Pennisula. Wheale joins with two archelogists to locate the rest of a legendary horde of gold. This hoard comes from Uaxuanoc, the centuries-old lost city of the Mayas.

Unfortunately, the Mafia are on the trail of Wheale and so are the Chicleros, a deadly group of convict mercernaries. And Wheale can't even trust his two archeologist friends.