The twelfth hair-raising Dirk Pitt thriller, which sees the adventurer hunt for a fabulous hoard of Inca gold, before the richest prize known to man is lost forever.
ACTION-PACKED ADVENTURE
A call for help from a stricken archaeological expedition brings Dirk Pitt to a sacred well, high in the Andes. There he confronts a band of ruthless art thieves, who plunder ancient sites for their precious artefacts.
But soon Dirk Pitt faces even graver danger, as he searches for a lost Spanish galleon and hunts for a fabulous hoard of Inca gold. And in a desperate race against time, Pitt must track down a sacred site – before the richest prize known to man is lost to the world forever...
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Praise for Clive Cussler:
‘Just about the best storyteller in the business’ New York Post
‘Cussler is hard to beat’ Daily Mail
‘The Adventure King’ Sunday Express
‘Frightening and full of suspense ... unquestionably entertaining’ Daily Express
‘Much fun, crisply told, with exciting special effects’
Kirkus Review
‘Clive Cussler is the guy I read’
Tom Clancy
'No holds barred adventure ... a souped-up treat' Daily Mirror
‘Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt are the first names in adventure’
Stephen Coonts
Demons. Demons of death, guarding the treasures of the Inca Kings, across the centuries and men of monstruous greed who order death from behind smiling faces...
Dirk Pitt must face both on a journey that begins high in the Peruvian Andes with a perilous dive into the grim waters of a sacrificial well where the Incas flung hundreds to their deaths. It leads them to Pueblo de los Muertos – the City of the Dead – and the legend of an Inca King, Huascar, who possessed a sacred gold chain that needed two hundred men to lift it. A chain that was sent far across the sea to keep it from the Spanish conquerors, to a hiding place guarded by a winged demon, in a river that ran beneath a desert.
And after Pitt, huaqueros – grave robbers. Men like Tupac Amoru, whose tools of trade are torture, rape and death; who takes Congress women Loren Smith hostage for Pitt's life...
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