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Clive Cussler introduces Sam and Remi Fargo in Spartan Gold • An ancient treasure stolen by Xerxes the Great . . . Discovered by Napoleon Bonaparte . . . The clues to its hidden location lost until now • Adventurers and treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are on a wild-goose chase. Up to their waists in the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Maryland, they're hunting for lost gold. What they find instead is a small Second World War German U-boat • Inside the submarine they find a body - and a puzzling, incredibly rare bottle of wine. This bottle was one of twelve taken from Napoleon's 'lost cellar'. But it is also a clue to a fabulous, ancient treasure • One that Hadeon Bondaruk - a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire - will do anything to get his hands on

Lost Empire is the second phenomenal FARGO Adventure from international bestseller, Clive Cussler • Some treasures are best left buried • Scuba diving off the Tanzanian coast, husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team, Sam and Remi Fargo discover a huge ship's bell, covered in cryptic carvings. But as they struggle to first recover the bell and then decode its clues, they find they are not alone in wanting to discover its secrets • When news of the find is publicised, Mexican President Quauhtli Garza is forced to act. He knows that this bell comes from a former Confederate ship that sank off the African coast and he fears that the discovery of a missing piece of a Quetzalcoatl statuette, which was aboard the ship, will undermine his plans for Mexico's future

The Kingdom is Clive Cussler's third Fargo Adventure • Whether it's lost treasure or missing persons, the Fargos find themselves in a heap of trouble every time • When Texas oil baron Charlie King contacts Sam and Remi Fargo he has an unusual request. He hired an investigator - and good friend of the pair - to locate his missing father in the Far East. But now the investigator has vanished. Would Sam and Remi be willing to look for them both? • Though something about the request doesn't quite add up, Sam and Remi agree to help out • It's a journey that takes the Fargos to Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India, and China. They get mixed up with black-market fossils, a centuries-old puzzle chest, the ancient Nepali kingdom of Mustang, a balloon aircraft from a century before its time

When a rogue state tries to go nuclear, only two men can stop it • Jack Ryan Jr is in Ho Chi Minh City tailing an ex-CIA operative with valuable documents when a hit leaves Jack with a corpse, no documents and only a bloodily scribbled note as a clue to what just happened • It sends him on the trail of a shadowy security firm with links to North Korea, newly resurgent under its young, power-hungry dictator. For the rogue state has found a way to finally make its nuclear ambitions a reality - no matter the cost to the world • This is something President Jack Ryan will not permit - but North Korea and its backers have plans for US leader which will silence him for good • On the ground and on the global stage, Jack Ryans Jr and Sr race against time to halt a madman from acquiring the world's deadliest weapon

Someone wants Jack Ryan Dead - and fast • Covert operative Jack Ryan Jr is enjoying some well-earned R&R when an attempt is made on his life. He survives, only to learn that another attempt on his life is imminent • Having barely survived the first time, Jack sets out to find out who wants him dead, and why • Using clues left by his would-be assassin, Jack follows a trail that leads through France and Switzerland to Rostock, a shadowy security firm based in Germany. Jack knows its head, Jurgen Rostock, from a previous operation - one that has apparently drawn the man's fury • Without the resources of The Campus - the elite agency from which he is on a leave-of-absence - but with the help of an investigative journalist, Jack embarks on his own secret campaign to uncover the truth about Rostock

A global race against the clock • The Chinese Navy is gaining power. With quieter submarines carrying ballistic missiles, they pose a critical threat to President Jack Ryan's America. And behind their progress is just one man: eccentric scientist Liu Wangshu • So when Liu goes missing, China suspects America's involvement. What's worse, President Jack Ryan discovers that a mole, code-named SURVEYOR, has infiltrated US intelligence to terrifying depths. Now more than ever, he needs the Chinese intelligence that Liu has to offer • With the help of old ally John Clark and the Campus team, Ryan faces a double race against time. First, beat the Chinese government in a global hunt for Liu. Then scour the elite ranks of the CIA for SURVEYOR • The heat is rising in this new Cold War

Jack Ryan Jr is in an assassin's sights • Sent to the Balkans on an analytical mission, Jack Ryan Jr visits Sarajevo to meet Aida, the girl his mother saved in the war. He finds a selfless, attractive woman helping refugees in a restless country where a new war is brewing • Coming to her aid, Jack is soon tangling with the Serbian mafia while dodging assassins from the mysterious Iron Syndicate. Alone and defying recall orders, he believes this is more than just local trouble • Has someone lit the fuse on the next world war? • Is Jack endangering Aida trying to find out? • And what can he alone do to stop it?

The clock is ticking - and President Jack Ryan is running out of time • A U.S. Navy Commander is attacked in a crowded restaurant while on leave. How did the assassin know his exact location? • In Tehran airport, a Canadian businessman is taken away to be interrogated. A CIA operative for over a decade - why has his cover now been blown? • A massive information breach has compromised America's intelligence agencies and around the globe, the noose is tightening • And the only man who can stop it, is the one closest to the danger: President Jack Ryan

A container ship from Shanghai explodes on its approach to Seattle • A US spy vessel in the South China Sea tangles with the Chinese navy • A stolen USB stick recovered in Texas exposes a terrorist conspiracy • As America is outmaneuvered by an increasingly bold President Zhou of China, Jack Ryan depends on the operatives of the Campus secret intelligence agency to plug the gaps between diplomacy and negotiation • But as an international summit approaches, Ryan must face Zhou alone • What he doesn't know is that the secret mastermind plotting conspiracy and destruction has had the leader of the free world in his sights all along

As the Kremlin orders troops to mass on the Ukrainian border, a Russian plane carrying nukes disappears mid-flight • For US President Jack Ryan this means attempting to defuse a war on Europe's flanks before it engulfs the whole continent • For his son, Campus secret agent Jack Jr, finding the nukes means covertly heading to the heart of the Middle East where militants seek to bring America to its knees • As East-West tensions escalate, tying the hands of President and son alike, both race against time to stop a weapon ending the world as we know it

He's the only one who can stop America's secrets from falling into enemy hands • Dominic Caruso, nephew to president Jack Ryan and operative for top secret intelligence agency The Campus, is working in India when a terrorist hit takes out his trainer • Caruso only just survives - barely intact • Back in Washington, they discover a mole has been leaking US secrets. Soon he is on the tail of Ethan Ross - a man who thinks he's too smart to ever get caught • But Ross has many more secrets on a micro-drive and when he decides to run, it's not just Caruso and the FBI on his trail • The Russians and a few angry terrorist groups will do anything to get to Ross - and the vital information he carries • So it's up to Caruso to get to Ross first • Support and Defend is a thrilling adventure you won't be able to put down

A blast from out of the past • After a mission goes wrong Jack Ryan heads to Barcelona for some required R&R. In a restaurant he bumps into old friend Renee Moore - but they have barely time to talk before a bomb blows the place apart • Dying in Jack's arms, Renee gasps a final word: 'Sammler'. Unsure who or what this is but not a believer in coincidences, he decides to investigate both Renee's reasons for being in Spain and the bombing itself • Soon, Jack is on the trail of a secretive organisation intent on bringing the world's great powers to the brink of war