The kingdom / Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood.
By: Cussler, Clive
Contributor(s): Blackwood, Grant
Series: Fargo adventures: bk. 3.Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2011Description: 392 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780399157424Subject(s): Fargo, Sam (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Fargo, Remi (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Treasure troves -- Fiction | Missing persons -- Investigation -- FictionGenre/Form: Action and adventure fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction) | Mystery fiction.Summary: The Fargos are used to hunting for treasure, not people. But then a Texas oil baron contacts them with a personal plea: an investigator friend of the Fargos' was on a mission to find the oil baron's missing father-and now the investigator is missing, too. Would Sam and Remi be willing to look for them both? Though something about the situation doesn't quite add up, the Fargos agree to go on the search. What they find will be beyond anything they could have imagined. On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years ... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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The Fargos are used to hunting for treasure, not people. But then a Texas oil baron contacts them with a personal plea: an investigator friend of the Fargos' was on a mission to find the oil baron's missing father-and now the investigator is missing, too. Would Sam and Remi be willing to look for them both? Though something about the situation doesn't quite add up, the Fargos agree to go on the search. What they find will be beyond anything they could have imagined. On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years ... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head.