Lost Empire (novel)

Lost Empire

Author	Clive Cussler & Grant Blackwood
Cover artist	Tom Hallman
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Fargo Adventures
Genre	Thriller novel
Publisher	Putnam
Publication date	August 31, 2010
Media type	Print (hardcover) ebook
Pages	416
ISBN	0-399-15676-3 (first edition, hardcover)
Preceded by	Spartan Gold (2009)
Followed by	The Kingdom (2011)

Lost Empire is a Fargo adventure novel. The two main characters of the Fargo novels are adventurers Sam Fargo and his wife, Remi. Lost Empire is the second book of the Fargo series. The book's hardcover edition was first published August 31, 2010. Other editions of this novel were released on various dates in 2010-11.^[1]

Plot

While vacationing and scuba diving near Zanzibar, the Fargos discover a ship's bell that they soon determine belonged to the Confederate warship Shenandoah, which after the Civil War had been sold to the Sultan of Zanzibar before mysteriously disappearing. As soon as they raise the bell, they find someone else wants it badly enough to kill to obtain it. They lose the bell to their pursuers, who they discover are involved with the new government of Mexico and they discover a number of tourists who discovered items of interest to the pursuers ended up dead. The Fargos end up traveling to the mainland of Tanzania, the rainforests of Madagascar and to the site of the 1883 Krakatoa volcano explosion in Indonesia in their quest to find answers to the intrigue. They not only get their bell back, but they discover what happened to the Shenandoah and make a stunning archaeological discovery.

Co-author Clive Cussler has a habit of making cameo appearances in many of his novels. In this one his appearance is a bit more pronounced than normal, when he helps the Fargos escape from a group of robbers who captured them.

Reviews

The Good Reads website as of the same date had 129 reviews of the book. Reviewers gave it an average of 3.7 stars of five possible stars.^[2]

References

↑ Fantastic Fiction website, http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/clive-cussler/lost-empire.htm .
↑ Good Reads website, http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7830113-lost-empire-fargo-adventure-2 .

Works by Clive Cussler

Dirk Pitt Adventures	The Mediterranean Caper (1973) Iceberg (1975) Raise the Titanic! (1976) Vixen 03 (1978) Night Probe! (1981) Pacific Vortex! (1983) Deep Six (1984) Cyclops (1986) Treasure (1988) Dragon (1990) Sahara (1992) Inca Gold (1994) Shock Wave (1996) Flood Tide (1997) Atlantis Found (1999) Valhalla Rising (2001) Trojan Odyssey (2003) Black Wind (2004) Treasure of Khan (2006) Arctic Drift (2008) Crescent Dawn (2010) Poseidon's Arrow (2012) Havana Storm (2014)

The NUMA Files	Serpent (1999) Blue Gold (2000) Fire Ice (2002) White Death (2003) Lost City (2004) Polar Shift (2005) The Navigator (2007) Medusa (2009) Devil's Gate (2011) The Storm (2012) Zero Hour (2013) Ghost Ship (2014) The Pharaoh's Secret (2015)

Oregon Files	Golden Buddha (2003) Sacred Stone (2004) Dark Watch (2005) Skeleton Coast (2006) Plague Ship (2008) Corsair (2009) The Silent Sea (2010) The Jungle (2011) Mirage (2013) Piranha (2015) The Emperor's Revenge (2016)

Isaac Bell Adventures	The Chase (2007) The Wrecker (2009) The Spy (2010) The Race (2011) The Thief (2012) The Striker (2013) The Bootlegger (2014) The Assassin (2015) The Gangster (2016)

Fargo Adventures	Spartan Gold (2009) Lost Empire (2010) The Kingdom (2011) The Tombs (2012) The Mayan Secrets (2013 The Eye of Heaven (2014) The Solomon Curse (2015)

Non fiction	The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks (1996) The Sea Hunters II: Diving the World's Seas for Famous Shipwrecks (2002)

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