Clive Cussler · 1994 · global

Clive Cussler's 1994 Dirk Pitt adventure. A rescue high in the Peruvian Andes plunges NUMA's Dirk Pitt into a hunt for a fabled hoard of Inca gold, hidden from the Spanish and lost for five centuries. Racing a ruthless syndicate of art thieves, Pitt follows the trail of a vanished treasure galleon from the sacred wells of the Andes to a hidden river beneath the Mexican desert.

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   The Andes

   High in the Andes of Peru, Dirk Pitt dives into an ancient sacrificial pool to save two drowning archaeologists - and is drawn into a deadly race for a lost Inca treasure of gold hidden from the conquistadors five centuries ago.

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   Sea of Cortez

   The trail of the gold leads north to the Sea of Cortez and the wreck of a Spanish treasure galleon, swept inland ages ago by a great wave, its cargo the key to a chain of clues pointing toward the final hiding place.

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   Sonoran Desert

   Beneath the Sonoran Desert of Mexico, in a hidden cavern fed by a secret underground river, the fabulous Inca hoard waits in darkness - and Pitt must reach it before the art-smuggling syndicate that will kill to possess it.