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by Clive Cussler (Author)
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The debut of a brand-new, action-packed series from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of "pure entertainment" (People).

Thousands of years ago, the Persian king Xerxes the Great was said to have raided the Treasury at Delphi, carrying away two solid gold pillars as tribute. In 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte and his army stumble across the pillars in the Pennine Alps. Unable to transport them Napoleon creates a map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. And when Napoleon dies, the bottles disappear...

Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Delaware when they are shocked to discover a World War II German u-boat. Inside, they find a bottle taken from Napoleon's "lost cellar." Fascinated, the Fargos set out to find the rest of the collection. But another connoisseur of sorts has been looking for the bottle they've just found. He is Hadeon Bondaruk--a half- Russian, half-Persian millionaire. He claims to be a descendant of King Xerxes himself.

And he wants his treasure back...



About the Author

Clive Cussler grew up in Alhambra, California. He attended Pasadena City College for two years, then enlisted in the Air Force during the Korean War and served as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer in the Military Air Transport Service. Upon discharge he became a copywriter and later creative director at two of the nation's leading ad agencies. He wrote and produced radio and television commercials in Hollywood that won numerous international honors including an award at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

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4.0 out of 5 stars 39 Clues for Adults, Sep 16 2009

"Listen, I tell you a mystery: . . . ." 1 Corinthians 15:51

If you enjoy watching the Great Race television show and like intellectual puzzles, you'll enjoy Spartan Gold. But other than having bad guys trying to do in the good guys (and gals), this book won't feel very much like a Dirk Pitt thriller. I've been enjoying the adolescent series, the 39 Clues, recently and I found Spartan Gold to be an adult version of that entertaining saga.

As the book opens, Napoleon is crossing the Alps to begin his second Italian campaign in winter. While there, something amazing is discovered that becomes the mystery that is solved in Spartan Gold. The book then shifts to the present where two wealthy archeologists and treasure seekers, the married couple Sam and Remi Fargo, are searching for a rumored stash in a swamp. They find something quite different from what they expect and are soon caught up in an obsessive criminal's search for items related to his presumed roots. In the process, they stumble on clues that are hard to solve and take them quickly from one country to another . . . usually just a few minutes ahead of the competition.

How much you like this book depends a lot on how much you like Sam and Remi as characters. Their dialogue and tastes reminded me of Nick and Nora Charles, but their ability to mix it up with baddies is more like Charlie's Angels. Sam and Remi rely more on thinking, deception, and martial arts than on brute force . . . but they can shoot straight when they have to. I found that they grew on me as the book went along. I think that the authors didn't do enough to establish their backgrounds in the book's beginning. By the time a second novel comes out in this series, I'm sure I'll like them better. As a new type of Cussler story, Spartan Gold lacks the high-flying technology that can make the Dirk Pitt and Oregon Files books so fascinating.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Warning, this is ghostwritten or smells like it, Oct 11 2009
By D. R. Chevalier "drchevalier" - See all my reviews
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Clive Cussler puts out some great books. This isn't one of them. In fact it feels like he wrote an outline on a napkin and then the co-author wrote the book. It's not bad, but it isn't Cussler either.
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