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|publisher = Putnam |
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|release_date = September 1, 2009 |
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|media_type = Print (])<ref>This book was also released as an ] Edition, as a paperback edition and as various audio and CD editions.</ref> |
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|pages = 384 pp {first hardcover edition) |
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|isbn = ISBN 0-399-15642-9 (first edition, hardcover) |
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'''''Spartan Gold''''' is a Fargo adventure novel. The two main characters of the Fargo novels are adventurers Sam Fargo and his wife, Remi. ''Spartan Gold'' is the first book of the Fargo series. The book's hardcover edition was first published September 1, 2009. Other editions of this novel were released on various dates after the hardcover edition's debut.<ref>Amazon.com website, http://www.amazon.com/Spartan-Gold-A-Fargo-Adventure/dp/B004J8HUFC/ref=ttm_hrd_title_0 ; Good Reads website, at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/626396-spartan-gold .</ref> |
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==Plot== |
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Clive Cussler introduces a new team of adventurers with this book, the Fargos, who have a knack for stumbling into the plots of evil egomaniacs. This adventure starts when they stumble across a one-man ] German ], which is still intact. Inside, they find a bottle that they discover came from ]'s "lost wine cellar." Immediately, representatives of power-hungry millionaire Hadeon Bondaruk attempt to get the bottle at any cost. They begin a quest to discover why this bottle so important that Bondaruk is willing to kill to get it. This adventure takes the Fargos to the ] and over much of ] before they discover Bondaruk's evil plans for regional domination. |
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Co-author ] has a habit of making cameo appearances in many of his novels. In this one he makes a brief appearance when the Fargos are hunting for one of Napoleon's wine bottles on ], in the Bahamas. |
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The Amazon.com website, as of October 2012, had 123 customer reviews of ''Spartan Gold'' and the reviewers gave the book an average of three stars out of five stars. The Good Reads website as of the same date had 295 reviews of the book. Reviewers gave it an average of 3.71 stars of five possible stars.<ref>Amazon.com website.</ref><ref>Good Reads website.</ref> |
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==References== |
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