A fabulously wealthy Chinese businessman is making a fortune smuggling Chinese immigrants. Dirk Pitt becomes suspicious and begins to track him. The trail leads him from Washington to Louisiana where the villain is building a huge shipping port - apparently in the middle of nowhere. Pitt's continuing investigation reveals that his instincts were right - he is on the tail of a master villain and not only lives are at stake. Dirk Pitt must stop him at all costs.
En 1800, alors qu il traverse les Alpes enneigees avec son armee, Napoleon Bonaparte fait une decouverte aussi fabuleuse qu inattendue. Dans l incapacite de transporter ce tresor cache et afin de le leguer en heritage a ses heritiers, il invente, avec l aide de son plus fidele officier et plus vieil ami, une enigme qui, une fois resolue, menera jusqu au tresor. Mais a la mort de l empereur, les indices soigneusement dissemines disparaissent, et l or de Sparte semble perdu a jamais Remi et Sam Fargo explorent les marais du Maryland lorsqu ils decouvrent, echoue dans un bras mort de la riviere, un sous-marin allemand datant de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Se trouve a l interieur une bouteille de vin de la cave perdue de Napoleon. Intrigues par cette decouverte, et plus encore par les etranges symboles qui ornent l etiquette, ils se lancent a la recherche des bouteilles manquantes.Mais Haedon Bondarouk, millionnaire russe d origine perse, est lui aussi pret a tout pour mettre les mains sur ce fabuleux tresor, qui pourrait bien en cacher un autre "
"[A] rewarding thriller...It contains enough twists and genuine surprises to keep the reader racing toward the satisfying final pages."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAlthough American painter Michael Doss has been schooled in the ancient ways of the warrior, he leads a quiet life. Until the tragic death of his father ignites the warrior spirit in his blood that will not be quenched until he uncovers the secret of his father's enigmatic life. His journey plunges him into a dangerous underworld, where he finds himself in lethal combat with a sinister Japanese organization that is bent on destroying the United States through global economic chaos. Doss is trapped. His only chance for survival is a final confrontation, face to face, with the vile assassin behind it all, Zero. "From the Paperback edition."
