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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....

Editions · 6

Paperback
2009
603 pp · EN
9781410418975
Ebook
2009 · Penguin USA, Inc.
EN
9781101139240
Paperback
2009 · Berkley Books
EN
9780425229910
Paperback
2009 · Thorndike Press
EN
9781410418975
Paperback
2010 · Michael Joseph
EN
9780718156084
Paperback
2011 · Penguin Books, Limited
EN
9780718159634

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