Spartan Gold

Spartan Gold
Author Clive Cussler & Grant Blackwood
Country United States
Language English (American English)
Series Fargo Adventures
Genre Thriller novel
Publisher Putnam
Publication date
September 1, 2009
Media type Print (Hardcover) ebook
Pages 384 (first hardcover edition)
ISBN 0-399-15642-9 (first edition, hardcover)
Followed by Lost Empire (2011)

Spartan Gold is a Fargo adventure novel. The two main characters of the Fargo novels are adventurers and treasure hunters Sam Fargo and his wife, Remi. Spartan Gold is the first book of the Fargo series. The book's hardcover edition was first published September 1, 2009. Other editions of this novel were released on various dates after the hardcover edition's debut.[1][2]

Plot

Clive Cussler introduces a new team of adventurers with this book, the Fargos, who have a knack for stumbling into the plots of evil egomaniacs. This adventure starts when they stumble across a one-man World War II German submarine, which is still intact. Inside, they find a bottle that they discover came from Napoleon's "lost wine cellar." Immediately, representatives of power-hungry millionaire Hadeon Bondaruk attempt to get the bottle at any cost. They begin a quest to discover why this bottle so important that Bondaruk is willing to kill to get it. This adventure takes the Fargos to the Bahamas and over much of Europe before they discover Bondaruk's evil plans for regional domination.

Co-author Clive Cussler has a habit of making cameo appearances in many of his novels. In this one he makes a brief appearance when the Fargos are hunting for one of Napoleon's wine bottles on Rum Cay, in the Bahamas.

Reviews

The Amazon.com website, as of October 2012, had 123 customer reviews of Spartan Gold and the reviewers gave the book an average of three stars out of five stars. The Good Reads website as of the same date had 295 reviews of the book. Reviewers gave it an average of 3.71 stars of five possible stars.[1][2]

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