Spartan Gold : FARGO Adventures #1 Paperback / softback

Clive Cussler introduces Sam and Remi Fargo in Spartan Gold.

An ancient treasure stolen by Xerxes the Great . . . Discovered by Napoleon Bonaparte . . . The clues to its hidden location lost until now . . . 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. 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. 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.

It will be his, no matter who stands in his way . . . Clive Cussler, author of the celebrated Dirk Pitt novels Arctic Drift and Crescent Dawn, presents his newest series, following the adventures of treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo - beginning withSpartan Gold. Praise for Clive Cussler:'The guy I read' Tom Clancy