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Informationen zum Autor Clive Cussler (Author) Clive Cussler is the author and co-author of a great number of international bestsellers, including the famous Dirk Pitt® adventures, such as Odessa Sea ; the NUMA® Files adventures, most recently Nighthawk ; the Oregon Files, such as Typhoon Fury ; the Isaac Bell historical thrillers, which began with The Chase ; and the recent Fargo Adventures which lastly included The Romanov Ransom . He lives in Arizona. Grant Blackwood (Author) Grant Blackwood is the author of the Briggs Tanner books and the co-author along with Clive Cussler of Lost Empire, Spartan Gold and The Kingdom . He has also co-written Dead or Alive with Tom Clancy, and now writes novels in the Tom Clancy series alongside Mark Greaney. Blackwood is a U.S. Navy veteran who lives in Colorado . When treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Delaware they are shocked to discover a WW II German U-boat. Inside, they find one of Napoleon's legendary and long-lost twelve bottles of wine on which lables he created an inscrutinable map of where to find two solid gold pillars of Persian king Xerxes the Great. Fascinated, the Fargos set out to find the rest of the collection. And so does another connoisseur of sorts who wants the treasure to be his, no matter what... Zusammenfassung 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 . . . ...
