Spartan Gold by Grant Blackwood and Clive Cussler (2009, Hardcover)

Synopsis
The trail of an ancient and glorious treasure skips across history and across the globe in best-selling author Clive Cussler's first book in this adventure series. Sam and Remi Fargo, brothers and partners in an unstoppable treasure-hunting team, stumble across a curious bottle of wine in a WWII-era German sub sunk in a Delaware swamp. The bottle is only one part of a set known as the Lost Cellar, a series of 12 bottles upon which Napoleon Bonaparte marked the location of an unbelievably precious stash. The Fargo brothers are, however, not the only ones seeking the Lost Cellar and the bounty to which it leads.

Key Details
Author:	Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood
Language:	English
Publisher:	Putnam Pub. Group
Series:	A Fargo Adventure
Format:	Hardcover
ISBN-10:	0399156429
ISBN-13:	9780399156427

Size
Length:	375 pages
Thickness:	1.2 in
Weight:	20.8 oz

Publisher's Note
Thousands of years ago, the Persian king Xerxes the Great was said to have raided the Treasury at Delphi, carrying away two solid gold pillars as tribute. In 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte and his army stumble across the pillars in the Pennine Alps. Unable to transport them Napoleon creates a map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. And when Napoleon dies, the bottles disappear.Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Delaware when they are shocked to discover a World War II 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. He is Hadeon Bondaruk--a half- Russian, half-Persian millionaire. He claims to be a descendant of King Xerxes himself.And he wants his treasure back...