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The action packed and fast paced “Treasure” is one of Clive Cussler’s most exciting novels. Clive Cussler’s hero Dirk Pitt
From the dust jacket, “In Treasure, Clive Cussler has written his most exciting novel to date, pitting Dirk Pitt against international terrorists and a criminal conspiracy that threatens the very survival of America. The plot is centered around the great library of Alexanderia, lost to the world in 391 C.E. Dirk Pitt discovers that the most precious artifacts of this library has been preserved after all, and races against the “forces of evil” to get to this treasure first. Dirk Pitt traces the ship that carried away the artificats before the library was destroyed to Greenland, but has to meander his way through complicated challenges that include a conspiracy to overthrow governments in Egypt and Mexico, an airline crash as a result of sabotage, a hijacked cruised ship that carries heads of states and other hair-rasing sub-plots which finally converge into the main theme.
The New York Times hails Dirk Pitt as “the ultra-capable [hero] with a hound-dog nose for hidden treasure, contempt for wealth and a Rambo-like distemper when crossed”