Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Spartan Gold/Clive Cussler/375 pages

The first Fargo adventure, Spartan Gold follows two new characters, Sam and Remi Fargo, a husband and wife team, through harrowing ordeals on the search for Napoleon's lost cellar.  It all starts when they find a wine bottle on a sunken WWII German U-Boat in the middle of a swamp in Maryland. The bottle's label identifies it as one from Napoleon's lost cellar, and also has a coded message.  After finding the code key and a couple more bottles with new messages along the way they discover that the bottles are leading them to an even bigger treasure than Napoleon's cellar.  Unfortunately, someone else has realized that, too, and is after both the treasure and Sam and Remi with an intent to kill them both to hide the secret.  The last bottle the Fargo's find leads them at last to the site of the treasure, an underground cavern with many passageways, where they must hide from the enemy who cares only about finding the treasure, two golden Greek columns, called Karyatids, that Napoloen stumbled across on one of his many conquests.

Overall, I think this book is a very good read for anyone who wants something with adventure and accurate history.

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