The Tombs (novel)

The Tombs is a Fargo adventure novel. The two main characters of the Fargo novels are adventurers Sam Fargo and his wife, Remi. The Tombs is the fourth book of the Fargo series. The book's hardcover edition was first published September 4, 2012. Other editions of this novel were released on various dates in 2012.^[2]

Plot

While volunteering their time with an underwater archeology project off the Louisiana coast, the Fargos discover they have hostile competition on the site from amateur treasure hunters. They receive a call from a German professor asking for help with an archeological site in Hungary. When they meet the professor in Germany, he is kidnapped and taken to Hungary by a wealthy and ruthless Hungarian, who claims direct descent from Attila the Hun. They find they were followed by the adventurers who moved in on their site in Louisiana.

The Fargos rescue the professor and soon find themselves on a hunt for hidden treasures buried by Attila and the unknown site of his tomb. Their adventure takes them into a number of countries in Europe and Asia. They also encounter allies of the Hungarian and at the end of the book encounter all their European adversaries at once.

Co-author Clive Cussler has a habit of making cameo appearances in many of his novels. This time he and his wife offer them a ride to a train station, where the Cusslers plan to travel the Trans-Siberian Railway to its eastern terminus on Siberia's coast. The Fargos depart the train partway in the journey, so they can hunt for a site in Kazakhstan.

Reviews

The Amazon.com website, as of January 2013, had 318 customer reviews of The Tombs and the reviewers gave the book an average of four stars out of five stars. The Good Reads website as of the same date had 120 reviews of the book. Reviewers gave it an average of 3.77 of five possible stars. The Barnes & Noble website as of January 2013 had seventy-eight reviews of the book and reviewers gave it four out of five stars.^[2][3][4]

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