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5.0 out of 5 stars
Is'nt that a German beer?, 5 Oct 2001
If you'd have asked me two months ago who Cive Cussler was I,d have said "Is'nt that a German beer?" But that was then.Ask me now and I'll tell you he's the award winning author of 16 bestselling novels and the Chairman of the highly respected NUMA(national underwater and marine agency) that he founded himself.But enough of the man behind the book,lets have a look at the book itself. Inca Gold is the 12 book in this phenomenally successful series and the first that I have ever read.As the title suggests the main plot revolves around a hoard of lost Inca treasure or Huascars treasure to be more precise. The tale kicks off thre hundred years in the past but soon shoots forward to the year 1998 where Dirk Pitt(hero of the story and main character in nearly all of Clive Cusslers novels)recieves desperate call for help from an archaeological expedition deep in the Andes.Pitt,director of special projects for NUMA,who was nearby mapping the ocean floor onboard his vessel the Deep Fathom,rushes to help. From here on in Pitt is dragged into a fantastic and dangerous adventure in the search for the treasure,that brings him to many exotic locations around the globe. To say too much of the plot would spoil it, so all I'll say is that it involves the hunt for the remains of a wrecked Spanish galleon,a stone demon and an underwater river.To find out how all these are connected you'll have to read the book,which I hugely recomend you do.The plot is cunning and inventive,the action fast paced and exciting.In fact there's nothing really wrong with it. To be honest,I enjoyed the book twice as much because I had a genuine interest in many of it's themes.Scuba-diving,sunken and wrecked ships,lost treasure,etc.If those kind of things don't strike you as interesting or exciting then you might not enjoy it as much as I did.But all the same you should give it bash.You might be surprised.
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