- Paperback: 552 pages
- Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd; Open market ed edition (2 Dec 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0718149793
- ISBN-13: 978-0718149796
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 407,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From the frigid lakes of Siberia to the hot wastes of the Gobi desert, Dirk Pitt is on the trail of fabled treasure ...
Rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia's Lake Baikal is all in a day's work for adventurers Dirk Pitt and partner Al Giordino. Yet when their ship is sabotaged and the survey team vanishes, Pitt is forced to get to the bottom of a mystery with far-reaching consequences.
Soon he's on his way to Mongolia. There, a powerful and ruthless business tycoon holding an astonishing secret about Genghis Khan is hoping to emulate the legend's greatest conquests - but on a global scale!
With the legacy of Khan and the lost treasures of Xanadu as the prize and the future security of the world at stake, Dirk Pitt for one isn't going to stand idly by ...
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.About the Author
Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of thirty-eight previous books, including nineteen Dirk Pitt novels, eight NUMA Files adventures, six Oregon Files books, three works of non-fiction, and his historical adventures, The Chase and The Wrecker. He lives in Arizona.
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ARIK TEMUR PEERED INTO THE darkness and tilted his head toward the side rail as the sound of oars dipping through the water grew louder. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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ARIK TEMUR PEERED INTO THE darkness and tilted his head toward the side rail as the sound of oars dipping through the water grew louder. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Ok I admit it I am absolutely addicted to reading books by Clive Cussler ever since I dare say it, chose the first book I read by him by thinking the cover looked good.Recently though I think Cussler has gone through somewhat of a rocky patch.He has recently started to combine his talents with different authors and for me it hasn't really worked.Even when writing with an equally brilliant writer like Jack DuBrul there just seemed that the 2 authors combined were not as good as they are individually.This book is different from that as Clive writes with his son Dirk and the book is very fluid and I was captivated from page one.He is back to doing what he does best and that is grabbing the reader on the first page and throwing them into a complex world of adventure and intrigue. I think what helped with this on this book was that Clive decided to dust down the original team of Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino.Don't get me wrong I think his other characters are Ok but these are the two for me that have made Clive Cussler the greatest adventure writer of his time.Speaking of which it looks as though avid fans like me don't have anything to worry about when the Grandmaster of Adventure does eventually hang up his adventure boots for the last time as his son demonstartes in this book that he is more than capable of taking up his fathers mantle. Some people would compare this novel closely with his previous novel Sahara which was also set in the desert but for me that is where the similarity ends.In summary this is Cussler at his best long may he continue!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Much as I enjoy the series; this I really do feel isnt one of Mr Cusslers better ones - I cant shake the feeling that Dirk Jr and Summer are mainly written by Dirk Cussler. Some of the writing, for example, has dirk and al behaving in ways other than in which you've become used to (Al, for example snarling). A little of the background of the Khans, in relation to the Yuan dynasty is a little off as well.
All the above aside though, if you're willing to suspend disbelief it's an enjoyable book as long as you're familiar with the Pitt universe. However, if you're not; this is a book to buy now and read after you've read a few of the earlier ones.
All the above aside though, if you're willing to suspend disbelief it's an enjoyable book as long as you're familiar with the Pitt universe. However, if you're not; this is a book to buy now and read after you've read a few of the earlier ones.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having read and really enjoyed Sahara, I was looking forward to the next Dirk Pitt adventure I got to read. This one was not up to scratch, in Sahara Pitt narrowly escapes death are few times, in this one you can barely turn 3 pages before he pulls it off with some ridiculous million-to-one coincidence, he even manges the old bible-next-to-your-heart-to-stop-a-bullet trick! When this story turns up another set of characters you are glad of the break from the man who won't die.
In fact he not only won't die, he'll plunge back into the same set of circumstances just to let death have another crack at him!!! I know coincidences make for great adventure stories and I love a good adventure story, but it's just the shear number in this book that just destroys it, and then the author just tosses a few unimportant characters to death just so he doesn't create a total fairy tale and that just makes it even worse because you have no emotional connection with the characters that have just died.
Not wanting to spoil it for anybody but the ending of this book is just terrible.
Rant over...
buy one of the others instead, the two stars here were only because the first half of the story were quite exciting.
In fact he not only won't die, he'll plunge back into the same set of circumstances just to let death have another crack at him!!! I know coincidences make for great adventure stories and I love a good adventure story, but it's just the shear number in this book that just destroys it, and then the author just tosses a few unimportant characters to death just so he doesn't create a total fairy tale and that just makes it even worse because you have no emotional connection with the characters that have just died.
Not wanting to spoil it for anybody but the ending of this book is just terrible.
Rant over...
buy one of the others instead, the two stars here were only because the first half of the story were quite exciting.
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Too long!
Not a bad yarn, but the literary style is atrocious, the characterisation naive and the plot largely predictable. In other words, it's a pot-boiler.
Published 17 months ago by oldworzel
Wow... This is bad...
I read 'The Chase' recently and it was actually quite good, so decided to read this one and I was astonished how different and full of amazing coincidences there are in it... Read more
Published on 26 May 2010 by P. Hallidie
Predictable page turner
Easy read, with predictable outcome. Superhero Dirk Pitt on another adventure with his able sidekick Al.
Published on 8 May 2009 by K. Harford
All Action Novel!
In Treasure of Khan a mysterious Mongolian tycoon is set on cornering the oil market, by destroying oil terminals, using secret technology, thus severly disrupting oil... Read more
Published on 8 July 2008 by J.Flood
Fast Paced
Well I have read the reviews on here.
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I beleive the book to be very good. Read more
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I beleive the book to be very good. Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2008 by R. Holdcroft
First and Last and Always
My first Cussler (bought for me as a birthday present) and my last. 2 stars for the effort (I couldn't write a novel), but a hackneyed plot, dire characterisation, predictable one... Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2008 by Andy C
Hmmm - Feel a little let down
I have read every previous Cussler novel and have - over the past few titles - become increasingly dissapointed. Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2008 by Richard H
Long winded bore
I am a long time Cussler fan; namely the Dirk Pitt novels but this particular book is just a waste of space (on your shelf) and a waste of time (in your life). Read more
Published on 6 Jan 2008 by Andros
All in all, the Treasure of Khan was a fun read
I always buy any new Clive Cussler book the day that it arrives in stores. The last few years, I've been dissapointed with each new addition to the series. Read more
Published on 29 Nov 2007 by Michael Stocker
stamina
You need more stamina than the two super heroes put together to get to the end of this one, a mish mash of subjects some well researched some not and the same characterless... Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2007 by C. Hargrave
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