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Lost empire
Record details
- ISBN: 9780425243619 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780399156762 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
402 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons : Berkley Books, 2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Sept 10 |
| Target Audience Note: | All Ages. |
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| Subject: | Fargo, Remi (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Treasure troves -- Fiction Adventure stories -- Fiction Fargo, Sam (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Relics -- Fiction Action |
| Genre: | Suspense fiction. Adventure fiction. Suspense fiction. |
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- 27 of 29 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library. (Show preferred library)
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- 0 current holds with 29 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Creston Public Library | FIC CUS (Text) | 35140000886476 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Beaver Valley Public Library | F CUS (Text) | 35144000037999 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Burns Lake Public Library | AF (Text) | 35198000469313 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC CUS (Text) | 35146001647866 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library | ADVENTURE PB (Text) | DCL136662 | Adult paperbacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Elkford Public Library | FC CUS (Text) | 35170000307637 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fernie Heritage Library | FIC CUS (Text) | 35136000228503 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort Nelson Public Library | FIC CUS (Text) | 35246000674455 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. John Public Library | AF CUS (Text) | 35211000053340 | ADULT Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Hudson's Hope Public Library | FIC FIC CUS (Text) | BHH036685 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2010 September #1
"This is the second installment (after Spartan Gold, 2009) of Cussler's action-packed new series featuring husband-and-wife treasure-hunters Sam and Remi Fargo, a spunky Nick and Nora for the twenty-first century. Scuba diving off the coast of East Africa, the couple discovers a bell, covered in cryptic carvings, from a long-lost Confederate warship. While they struggle to decode the clues found on the bell, a sinister faction is shadowing them in hopes of also discovering the secret to which the clues lead. Unlike the Fargos, this group does not want the secret uncovered and will kill to keep it hidden, as the discovery would result in a rewrite of the history books. In his inimitable way, Cussler throws everything into the pot: Confederate warships, the Aztecs, the Krakatoa explosion of 1883, pirates, and, in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock, Cussler himself in a cameo appearance. Blackwood, the coauthor, seems to have brought a breath of fresh air to Cussler's usual testosterone-laced style by toning down the traces of xenophobia and misogyny that often permeate the long-in-the-tooth Dirk Pitt series. HIGH DEMAND BACKSTORY: Fans of Mathew Reilly and James Rollins will revel in this treasure-hunting adventure." Copyright 2010 Booklist Reviews. - LJ Express Reviews : LJ Express Reviews
Introduced in Spartan Gold, the husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team of Sam and Remi Fargo discover an ancient relic, a sunken Confederate raider, while scuba diving off the coast of Tanzania. The find sends them on a series of wild and improbable adventures that include a chase halfway across the world to a climax in Indonesia. Why? Because an evil group has taken control of Mexico and wants to inspire loyalty by reintroducing Aztec values and traditions. The relic threatens their claim to legitimacy. VERDICT Many prolific authors, such as James Patterson and Tom Clancy, now use coauthors to write their novels, with predictably inconsistent results. The team of Cussler and Blackwood is second tier at best. The overly glib Fargos are just not interesting. Their marriage is passionless, punctuated only by multiple pecks on the cheek. And the plot is not an exciting grabber. Purchase only for demand as this is not up to the recent high standards set by Cussler's Isaac Bell series.âRobert Conroy, Warren, MI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2010 August #1
Cussler and Blackwood's second adventure to feature husband-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo deviates little from the familiar formula of the first in the series, Spartan Gold. When Sam and Remi find a huge ship's bell on a dive off the Tanzanian coast, they must work to find a way to recover it without running afoul of the Tanzanian government. Meanwhile, Mexican president Quauhtli Garza, a staunch nationalist, knows that this bell comes from a former Confederate ship that sank off the east African coast after the Civil War. Garza fears the discovery of a missing piece of a Quetzalcoatl statuette, which was aboard the ship, will undermine his grip on power. Once Garza dispatches his henchman to Tanzania to deal with the Fargos, the novel devolves into a standard chase thriller. Uninspired dialogue ("I love adventure as much as the next gal, but there's something to be said for good food and a warm bed with clean sheets," Remi tells Sam) doesn't help. (Sept.)
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