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Lost Empire
Oct 19, 2024 4:38 AM

Author:Clive Cussler,Grant Blackwood

Lost Empire

Lost Empire is the second phenomenal FARGO Adventure from international bestseller, Clive Cussler.

Some treasures are best left buried . . .

Scuba diving off the Tanzanian coast, husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team, Sam and Remi Fargo discover a huge ship's bell, covered in cryptic carvings. But as they struggle to first recover the bell and then decode its clues, they find they are not alone in wanting to discover its secrets.

When news of the find is publicised, Mexican President Quauhtli Garza is forced to act. He knows that this bell comes from a former Confederate ship that sank off the African coast and he fears that the discovery of a missing piece of a Quetzalcoatl statuette, which was aboard the ship, will undermine his plans for Mexico's future.

With Garza determined to stop the Fargos investigation at all costs, the couple are drawn into a deadly conspiracy that connects the 1883 Krakatoa explosion with an attempt to resurrect the fallen Aztec empire ...

Clive Cussler, author of the celebrated Dirk Pitt novels Arctic Drift and Crescent Dawn, presents the second in the series following the adventures of treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo. Lost Empire is the second of the FARGO Adventures; Spartan Gold is the first.

Praise for Clive Cussler:

'Clive Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

Reviews

The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care . . . the entire story is a pleasure to relish

—— Scotsman

Dick Francis's fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader's attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end

—— Sunday Telegraph

Francis writing at his best

—— Evening Standard

A plot as twisted and exciting as any Le Carre thriller

—— Daily Mail

It's a fine finale for the fretful policeman and it's hard not to feel you'll miss the old bugger

—— Siobhan Murphy , Metro

The Beck books were greatly admired, but Wahloo's two novels featuring Chief Inspector Jensen are more intellectually intriguing

—— Independent on Sunday

A compelling storyteller of our time

—— Sunday Telegraph

Compulsively readable

—— Sunday Times

Part-bodice-ripper, part-slasher, the book's elaborate plot moves along at a brisk clip with a nod to the likes of Sarah Waters and Peter Ackroyd

—— Daily Mail

A sure-footed evocation of seamy Victorian London

—— The Sunday Telegraph

A sinister picture of a country, and protagonist, on the brink of hysteria

—— Psychologies

As crowded with sensation as a Victorian parlour with furniture

—— The Scotsman

A spider's web of a plot and a spine-tingling atmosphere of menace and suspense

—— The Times

Mesmerising, elegant and compelling

—— The Lady

This spine-tingling novel… will certainly keep your nerves jangling

—— Woman's Weekly

An excellent ghost story...magnificently eerie...compulsive reading

—— Evening Standard

She writes with great power, authentically chilling

—— Daily Telegraph

One of the most popular British ghost stories of modern times

—— Observer
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