Spartan Gold Av Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood

<p>Clive Cussler introduces Sam and Remi Fargo in <i>Spartan Gold</i>. <br><br><b>An ancient treasure stolen by Xerxes the Great . . . Discovered by Napoleon Bonaparte . . . The clues to its hidden location lost until now . . .</b><br><br>Adventurers and treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are on a wild-goose chase. Up to their waists in the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Maryland, they''re hunting for lost gold. What they find instead is a small Second World War German U-boat.<br><br>Inside the submarine they find a body - and a puzzling, incredibly rare bottle of wine. This bottle was one of twelve taken from Napoleon''s ''lost cellar''. But it is also a clue to a fabulous, ancient treasure.<br><br>One that Hadeon Bondaruk - a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire - will do anything to get his hands on. For he claims descent from treasure''s one-time owner. <br><br>It will be his, no matter who stands in his way . . .<br><br>Clive Cussler, author of the celebrated Dirk Pitt novels <i>Arctic Drift</i> and <i>Crescent Dawn</i>, presents his newest series, following the adventures of treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo - beginning with<i>Spartan Gold.</i><br><br><b>Praise for Clive Cussler:</b><br><br>''The guy I read'' Tom Clancy</p>