Over three,000 years in the past, grave robbers sail away with loot from a pharaoh’s tomb. In 1927, Jake Melbourne and his airplane disappear in his try at a trans-Atlantic flight. Within the current day, arms retailers generally known as the Bloodstone Group have taken to stealing antiquities. They’re on the lookout for a “treasure each huge and superb” that hieroglyphics say was shipped down the Nile and out of Egypt, maybe even west throughout the Atlantic. (Holy scurvy! That should’ve been plenty of laborious rowing!) The criminals are recognized to MI5 as “very harmful folks” and “retailers promoting dying.” Completely keen to kill everybody of their means, they’re aided by mechanical crows and Fydor and Xandra, nasty sibling assassins collectively referred to as the Toymaker. Such are the foes confronted by Austin and his group from the Nationwide Underwater and Marine Company. After all, Austin has no real interest in revenue; he’ll gladly go away the traditional riches wherever they’re. Motion arrives early and infrequently, and the failed pre-Lindbergh flight matches in neatly. Cussler and Brown concoct a nifty plot with disparate, typically over-the-top twists that may make even hardcore journey followers say “Wow!” Anticipate claustrophobic gunfights, aerial fight, a life-threatening flood, messages from the lifeless, coffins of gold—and a classic basic automobile, as a result of why not? “We’re going to steal the best deposit of Egyptian treasure the world has ever recognized,” brags the evil mastermind. However he’ll need to climb over the collection hero’s lifeless physique first, which—no plot spoiler right here—ain’t gonna occur.
