Paperback, 502 pages
Published Dec. 1, 2010 by Penguin Books.
Paperback, 502 pages
Published Dec. 1, 2010 by Penguin Books.
The Fargos are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Delaware when they stumble across a WWII German U-boat. Inside, they find a curious bottle, which they identify as coming from Napoleon's "lost cellar." The Fargos set out to find the rest of the collection – but unbeknownst to them, another connoisseur of sorts has been looking for the very bottle they've just found: Hadeon Bondaruk, a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire who claims to be a direct descendant of Persian emperor Xerxes the Great. Bondaruk has no interest in the contents of the bottles, mind you, just the secret that the labels hold – a treasure map which leads to the golden columns stolen from the Greeks by Xerxes. And perhaps a bit more....