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Spartan Gold
- Fargo Adventures, Book 1
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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Summary
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood's debut title in the Fargo adventure series, Spartan Gold, read by the award-winning narrator Scott Brick.
Thousands of years ago, the mighty Persian king Xerxes the Great was said to have raided the Treasury at Delphi, carrying away two solid gold pillars as a tribute to his glory.
In 1800, while crossing the Pennine Alps, Napoleon Bonaparte and his army stumbled across the pillars. Unable to transport them, Napoleon created an inscrutable map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. When Napoleon died, the bottles disappeared - and the gold pillars were lost once again.
Treasure-hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Delaware when they are shocked to discover a German U-boat. Inside, they find a bottle taken from Napoleon's 'lost cellar'. Fascinated, the Fargos set out to find the rest of the collection. But another connoisseur of sorts has been looking for the bottle they've just found. But not for the wine; he wants what the bottle may lead to. For he is Hadeon Bondaruk - a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire - and he claims descent from King Xerxes himself.
And the treasure will be his, no matter what....
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- Gabrielle Harvey-Jones
- 05-10-15
Another treasure hunting thriller!
To be fair, this is probably not really my type of book! Blame Audible Daily Deals! A bit of a struggle - both with the author and the narrator, but, finally, finished it! Sure someone else will love It!
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- Jeremy Lee
- 29-06-12
Thoroughly Entertaining
I found this audiobook to be a great listen; great pace to the story with enough detail in the slower sections to keep you interested. Really looking forward to more Fargo adventures from Cussler.
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- Stuart
- 05-01-18
Good fun and adventure
If you could sum up Spartan Gold in three words, what would they be?
Old school adventure
What did you like best about this story?
Fast pace, a bit of silliness and good humour
What does Scott Brick bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
Very good voice characterization
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
yes
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- pm
- 31-10-20
Enjoyable easy listening
This is what I would describe as an easy listen while you do other things like on a journey or while cooking where you don’t really mind if you miss a few sentences while you attend to other things. I listened to it in bits and pieces. Enjoyable but otherwise not noteworthy or memorable.
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- Sally Ann Lewis
- 04-02-23
Fun Listening but not the best
At times predictable. Storyline followed usual form
ula.. action man and sidekick follow treasure hunt in race against evil baddies. That said easy listening and quite pacy. Good long journey/ holiday listen.
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- ian
- 25-08-15
Good easy adventure
Haven't listened to cussler before just what i was looking for.
Will listen to next one.
A cross between indiana jones and uncharted on play station
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- Albert Greig
- 10-12-16
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I loved the story line but I found the readers voice boring there were no sound changes just one droning cadiance
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- TW Oswald
- 15-01-19
The Fargo stories
Characters are good and believable locations are accurate and storyline excellent. Typical Clive Cussler storytelling
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-09-22
excellent Read
really good enjoyed it very much want to read or should I say listen
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- margaret wright
- 06-02-18
Dreadful narration
Whilst the story was reasonably entertaining, it was spoiled by poor pronunciation by the narrator. A small amount of research would have given an indication of the correct way to pronounce place names etc.
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