Len Deighton was born in 1929 in London. He did his national service in the RAF, went to the Royal College of Art and designed many book jackets, including the original UK edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The enormous success of his first spy novel, The IPCRESS File (1962), was repeated in a remarkable sequence of books over the following decades. These varied from historical fiction (Bomber, perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction (SS-GB) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War (Fighter, Blitzkrieg and Blood, Tears and Folly). 
 
His spy novels chart the twists and turns of Britain and the Cold War in ways which now give them a unique flavour. They preserve a world in which Europe contains many dictatorships, in which the personal can be ruined by the ideological and where the horrors of the Second World War are buried under only a very thin layer of soil. Deighton's fascination with technology, his sense of humour and his brilliant evocation of time and place make him one of the key British espionage writers, alongside John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré.

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Clive Cussler

Grant Blackwood

Sam and Remi Fargo are a husband and wife team on a quest. Treasure hunters, they travel the world looking for ancient artefacts and exotic bounty. They're in it for the history and the mystery, but others are not so honourable, and the Fargo's often find themselves caught up in ancient riddles, desperate to solve the puzzle before the bad guys get there first.

Whether it's lost treasure or missing persons, the Fargos find themselves in a heap of trouble every time . . . 
 
When Texas oil baron Charlie King contacts Sam and Remi Fargo he has an unusual request. He hired an investigator - and good friend of the pair - to locate his missing father in the Far East. But now the investigator has vanished. Would Sam and Remi be willing to look for them both? 
 
Though something about the request doesn't quite add up, Sam and Remi agree to help out. 
 
It's a journey that takes the Fargos to Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India, and China. They get mixed up with black-market fossils, a centuries-old puzzle chest, the ancient Nepali kingdom of Mustang, a balloon aircraft from a century before its time . . . and an extraordinary skeleton that might turn the history of human evolution on its head. Oh, and not a few unfriendly people with guns and itchy trigger fingers . . . 
 
Packed with endless imagination and breathtaking supense, The Kingdom is a spectacular new Clive Cussler adventure.

The Kingdom

FARGO Adventures #3

Thomas Perry

Husband and wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon an astonishing discovery - the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. 
 
The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some would do anything to possess them - as the Fargos are about to find out. Before their adventure is done, many people will die for that book - and Sam and Remi may just be among them...

The Mayan Secrets

Fargo Adventures #5

Robin Burcell

The careers and lives of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are on the line in the thrilling new adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling master of adventure. 
 
In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Grey Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the good name of Jonathon Payton, however, the man wrongly blamed for the theft, and more than a hundred years later, it is his grandson who turns to Sam and Remi Fargo to help prove his grandfather's innocence. 
 
But there is even more at stake than any of them know. For the car has vanished again, and in it is an object so rare that it has the capacity to change lives. Men with everything to gain and a great deal to lose have a desperate plan to find it - and if anybody gets in their way? They have a plan for that, too.

The Grey Ghost

Fargo Adventures #10

It's a prize beyond imagination. 
When an archaeologist excavating a top secret historical site realizes the magnitude of his discovery he requests help from treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo. In rushing to join him, the Fargos are thrown into their most daring quest to date. 
 
The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder, a bounty that has never been found. 
 
But as Sam and Remi piece together the puzzle, the trail takes them not to a single tomb, but five. And into the path of deadly danger. They are not the only ones hunting for the High King's riches. 
The Fargos find themselves pitted against enemies who will stop at nothing to claim the tombs' riches as their own.

The Tombs

FARGO Adventures #4

The discovery of a long-lost treasure 
An enormous Russian fortune has been missing for decades, believed to be stolen by the Nazis from Russia in World War II, it fell out of all knowledge. Until Now. 
 
A modern-day kidnapping 
When an abduction captures the attention of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo, the couple find themselves on the trail of the legendary Romanov Ransom. Hunting a neo-Nazi faction called the Werewolves, they find more than just the ransom is at stake. 
 
The return of a terrifying evil 
As the Fargos trek across Europe, Northern Africa, and South America, they know only one thing: they must prevent the rise of a Fourth Reich, or witness the resurgence of the greatest evil of the modern world.

The Romanov Ransom

Fargo Adventures #9

An 800-year-old treasure . . . 
An ancient cypher wheel . . . 
A brutal murder . . . 
And a man who will stop at nothing to claim what he considers rightfully his. 
 
Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo have gone on impossible missions before and faced many perils, but never have they faced an adversary as determined as the one before them now. The battle will take them halfway around the world, and at its end will be either one of the most glorious finds in history - or certain death.

Pirate

Fargo Adventures #8

Some treasures are best left buried . . . 
 
Scuba diving off the Tanzanian coast, husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team, Sam and Remi Fargo discover a huge ship's bell, covered in cryptic carvings. But as they struggle to first recover the bell and then decode its clues, they find they are not alone in wanting to discover its secrets. 
 
When news of the find is publicised, Mexican President Quauhtli Garza is forced to act. He knows that this bell comes from a former Confederate ship that sank off the African coast and he fears that the discovery of a missing piece of a Quetzalcoatl statuette, which was aboard the ship, will undermine his plans for Mexico's future. 
 
With Garza determined to stop the Fargos investigation at all costs, the couple are drawn into a deadly conspiracy that connects the 1883 Krakatoa explosion with an attempt to resurrect the fallen Aztec empire . . .

Lost Empire

FARGO Adventures #2

Russell Blake

In the stormy wastes of Canada's Baffin Island, treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo make an astonishing discovery - a Viking longship frozen in the Arctic ice . . . 
 
But what is more astonishing still is the longship's cargo - a hoard of pre-Colombian artefacts from Mexico. This tantalizing mystery sends the couple to Central America in search of further evidence - and into deadly trouble. 
 
For Sam and Remi's find puts them on the trail of legendary jewel the Eye of Heaven, which also sees other more ruthless - and soon enough murderous - treasure hunters racing to get there first. 
 
It's a chase that takes them through jungles and into ancient temples and secret tombs on a life or death hunt for the solution to a thousand-year-old mystery . . .

The Eye of Heaven

Fargo Adventures #6

BENEATH THE WAVES A SECRET LIES 
In the clear blue waters of the Solomon Islands the ruins of an ancient city have lain undisturbed for hundreds of years - until now. 
 
GUARDED BY AN ANCIENT CURSE 
Legend - even recent history - tells of a terrible fate befalling anyone foolish enough to venture near. Visitors do not return alive. 
 
OR SOMETHING MORE DEADLY? 
But when treasure-hunting team Remi and Sam Fargo dive to investigate the city, they find more than ancient monuments and lost artefacts. 
 
Because someone is using the legends to hide their own dark and grisly secret. And the closer Remi and Sam get to discovering the truth, the closer they come to being the curse's next victims . . .

The Solomon Curse

Fargo Adventures #7

An ancient treasure stolen by Xerxes the Great . . . 
Discovered by Napoleon Bonaparte . . . 
The clues to its hidden location lost until now . . . 
 
Adventurers and treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are on a wild-goose chase. Up to their waists in the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Maryland, they're hunting for lost gold. What they find instead is a small Second World War German U-boat. 
 
Inside the submarine they find a body - and a puzzling, incredibly rare bottle of wine. This bottle was one of twelve taken from Napoleon's 'lost cellar'. But it is also a clue to a fabulous, ancient treasure. 
 
One that Hadeon Bondaruk - a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire - will do anything to get his hands on. For he claims descent from treasure's one-time owner. 
 
It will be his, no matter who stands in his way . . .

Spartan Gold

FARGO Adventures #1

The legend of Croesus's riches has echoed across millennia. Stolen and hidden by pirates after the Persian King's defeat in 546 BC, his staggering wealth was thought to be lost to history . . . 
 
Treasure-hunters Sam and Remi Fargo know it's out there somewhere. A decade after their search for the King's gold first brought them together, the husband and wife team return to Greece to uncover the hoard that has always eluded them. 
 
But they soon learn they're not the only ones looking. The reappearance of a vengeful and ruthless rival forces them into a deadly race against time to find the treasure. And until it's found no one is safe. Least of all Sam and Remi . . . 
 
With all the switchblade plotting, globe-trotting action and explosive intrigue that Clive Cussler has made his own, Wrath of Poseidon delivers another white-knuckle ride from the Grandmaster of Adventure.

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