When a tsunami hit a Spanish treasure galleon, all trace of a golden hoard greater than that of any pharaoh's vanished into history. Until NUMA agent DIRK PITT® dives into an ancient sacrificial pool far into the Andean jungle in order to rescue two archaeologists, and plunges into a vortex of corruption, betrayal, and death. A sinister crime syndicate has traced the long-lost treasure — worth almost a billion dollars — from the Andes to the banks of a hidden underground river flowing beneath a Mexican desert. Nothing will stop their ruthless and murderous drive to recover the gold. Nothing, that is, until Pitt and his team place themselves square in the path of danger....
Dirk Pitt returns in an subterranean adventure that is perhaps the most inventive and most enthralling of his career--one that involves a classic treasure hunt for an ancient hoard of Incan gold off the coast of an island, the secrets of a lost civilization, and an international family syndicate that deals in stolen works of art and smuggled artifacts. Pitt engages in a battle of wits in a race against time to find the gold, immersed in a battle between art theives, the FBI and the Customs Service, and a tribe of local Indians. 537pp.
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