Clive Cussler Inca Gold

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Cussler, Clive - Inca Gold (Signed, 1st)

1994 NY: Simon & Schuster

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Book Description

A chance rescue of two divers trapped in a Peruvian sinkhole leads series hero Dirk Pitt (Raise the Titanic!, Deep Six) into a search for lost treasure that involves grave robbers, art thieves and ancient curses.

Cussler's latest adventure novel features terrorists who aren't really terrorists and a respected archaeologist who is not what he seems; it all boils down to a race between Pitt and some unscrupulous crooks for a cache of Inca gold hidden away from the Spanish and lost since the 16th century. The villains, a society of art and antiquity smugglers called the Solpemachaco, want to get their hands on the Golden Body Suit of Tiapollo, which contains in its hieroglyphics a description of the Inca treasure's hidden burial place.

Pitt ends up searching for a jade box containing a quipu, an Inca silver-and-gold metalwork map to the treasure. The box was stolen from the Indians by the Spanish, stolen from the Spanish by Francis Drake and then lost in the South American jungle, but readers who know Pitt know that that a 400-year-old missing clue is only a minor obstacle. Master storyteller Cussler keeps the action spinning as he weaves a number of incredible plotlines into a believable and gripping story. It's pure escapist adventure, with a wry touch of humor and a certain self-referential glee (Cussler himself makes a cameo appearance).

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