Vortex

One of the greatest treasures in history - the Golden Fleece - is discovered. You are sent to a small, sun scorched Greek island to obtain it. On that island of close-knit, suspicious families, you clash with a murderer more cold blooded than you imagine a man could be. And fall in love with the most haunting and mysterious woman you've ever met. Vortex is the story of Phillip Porter, a young man driven by an obsessive love of his own and entangled in the obsessions of two other people: a man twisted by greed and violence who wants the Fleece - at any cost, and a woman yearning to cross the spiritual threshold of death - and who believes the Fleece is her gateway. Phillip can not escape one and does not want to leave the other and must inevitably be drawn toward an ultimate moment of passion and death. --- from book's back cover