Book
Spartan gold
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399156427
- ISBN: 9780425236291 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780399156427 (hc)
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Physical Description:
375 p. ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2009.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Fargo adventure"--Jacket. |
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| Subject: | Treasure troves -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Adventure fiction. Adventure fiction. Suspense fiction. |
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Available copies
- 18 of 19 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 19 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) | 35140000838642 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2009 September #1
If you're reading a novel, and you meet a fella called Hadeon Bondaruk, you just know it: this guy's a villain. Villains get the really cool names. Our heroes, on the other hand, a husband-and-wife team of professional treasure hunters, are Sam and Remi Fargo, OK names but not as memorableâwhich kind of describes the novel, too: OK but not memorable. While exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Delaware, Sam and Remi find, hidden away at the edge of a river, a World War IIâera German mini-submarine. But how did it get there? And could the bottle of wine they find inside the sub really be part of a set of bottles on which the emperor Napoleon fashioned a map showing the hidden location of a pair of solid gold pillars, originally hidden in the Pennine Alps 2,500 years ago? Well, of course it could, and soon the Fargos are fighting for their very lives against the enormously powerful Bondaruk, who has a real taste for some old wine. The story moves at a brisk clip, and Hadeon is a scenery-chewing villain, but, finally, the book feels flat. If you read thrillers, you've seen most of this before, and done better, too (imagine, say, what James Rollins might do with this story). For Cussler devotees. Copyright 2009 Booklist Reviews.
