Barbarisi writes with gusto and portrays the eccentrics he encounters with a candor that never quite slips into mockery; he sums up Beep as 'a Renaissance man of the frivolous.' He can also make a landscape come alive.

Journalist Barbarisi spent several years researching and writing this mesmerizing account of a modern-day treasure hunt, which reveals a whole subculture of Indiana Jones types willing to travel across the country and invest life savings in the search for something special.

In this lively read, a journalist sheds objectivity and searches for riches alongside his subjects.

Reading Daniel Barbarisi’s Chasing the Thrill might feel a bit like watching a Discovery Channel documentary, but the book is quite a yarn. In fact, it’s an exhaustive account of one of the oddest episodes in the crowded annals of bizarro Americana.

[A] captivating account of the exploit of an eccentric community of treasure hunters who scoured the Rocky Mountains from 2010 to 2020 in search of New Mexico art dealer Forrest Fenn’s hidden chest of gold and jewels.

The tale of an infamous and perilous modern-day hunt for buried treasure in the Rocky Mountains.