Treasure : Dirk Pitt Series : Book 9

Clive Cussler
Treasure : Dirk Pitt Series : Book 9
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Treasure : Dirk Pitt Series : Book 9
ISBN: 9781451621013
Publication Date: 26 April 2011

In Treasure, Clive Cussler has written his most exciting novel to date, pitting Dirk Pitt (whom The New York Times has hailed as "the ultra-capable [hero] with a hound-dog nose for hidden treasure, contempt for wealth and a Rambo-like distemper when crossed"), against international terrorism and a criminal conspiracy that threatens the very survival of America.

The "treasure" that Pitt seeks, against all the odds, is none other than the Great Library and Museum of Alexandria, the chief wonder of the ancient world, containing an incredible mass of literature, art and knowledge, from the complete works of Homer and the golden coffin of Alexander the Great to priceless charts of lost gold, mineral and oil deposits that could change the balance of power in the world today...

The loss of the library, burned in 391 A.D., has been considered by scholars one of the world's great tragedies, but when Dirk Pitt discovers that the most precious part of it was saved and hidden, the race is on to recover its secrets - a race that involves a deadly plot which could unseat the friendly governments of Egypt and Mexico, expose America to invasion, economic collapse and political blackmail, destroy Israel, and plunge a large part of the world back into savage barbarism.

Clive Cussler's gifts as a storyteller (which prompted tom Clancy, the author of Red October, to say of Cussler's last book, "Anyone who can put [it] down, has a stronger will than I have") have never been better displayed.

... Sixteen hundred years later, Dirk Pitt finds the ship and its crew, frozen in the ice of a Greenland fjord, and with the help of a beautiful young archaeologist, NUMA's sophisticated computers, and his own do-or-die enthusiasm for adventure, sets out to find Venator's secret hiding place/ His quest, which...