Title: Spartan gold
Description: 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....
Subjects: nyt:mass_market_paperback=2010-08-29, Fiction, Treasure troves, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, action & adventure, Large type books