Spartan gold

About this book

The Fargos are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Delaware when they stumble across a WWII German U-boat. Inside, they find a curious bottle, which they identify as coming from Napoleon's "lost cellar." The Fargos set out to find the rest of the collection โ€“ but unbeknownst to them, another connoisseur of sorts has been looking for the very bottle they've just found: Hadeon Bondaruk, a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire who claims to be a direct descendant of Persian emperor Xerxes the Great. Bondaruk has no interest in the contents of the bottles, mind you, just the secret that the labels hold โ€“ a treasure map which leads to the golden columns stolen from the Greeks by Xerxes. And perhaps a bit more....

Subjects

  • fiction
  • fiction, action & adventure
  • fiction, thrillers, general
  • large type books
  • new york times bestseller
  • nyt:mass_market_paperback=2010-08-29
  • treasure troves