The Ghost City
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
An ancient secret hidden in a forgotten city holds the key to modern riches in this exhilarating sequel to Blood and Treasure.
Once you've made your first ten billion, what's more money? What any billionaire really wants isn't money, it's power, and Shan Zhang has the perfect plan to achieve that. The discovery of a manuscript from the renowned explorer Marco Polo leads to an ancient city buried under the snows of Antarctica. Within that city lies the key to a forgotten technology that will transform modern society, but that transformation may cause the deaths of millions.
Professional treasure hunter and adventurer Ethan Cain is working on the Mekong River in Vietnam when the massive waterway suddenly goes dry. It's a stunning ecological disaster. One that Ethan can't ignore. His quest for answers will lead him to Zhang and ultimately a confrontation from which only one of them will emerge.
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Navy pilot–turned–land surveyor Ethan Cain tangles with a sinister Chinese businessman in Pote's solid if familiar sequel to Blood and Treasure. Ethan's company, Pathfinder Survey Systems, is mapping the sediment of Vietnam's Mekong River when an explosion almost kills him and uncovers the hull of an ancient Chinese sailboat. Meanwhile, wealthy Chinese construction CEO Shan Zhang is busy stealing the world's supply of river sand to make concrete to sell. (In an aside that illustrates Pote's preoccupation with facts and figures, he notes that the illicit sand trade tops $700 billion worldwide, with demand increasing by 50 billion metric tons per year.) Plotwise, Zhang's river operations are just the tip of the sand dune, as Ethan's girlfriend, investigative journalist Lana Foster, discovers when she travels to Antarctica to interview Zhang at his icy, modernist lair. Zhang is planning on killing her because she knows too much about his crooked business—and because he's a madman with a plan to destroy the world. As in the previous book, Pote is working in the old-school vein of Clive Cussler, and he proves an effective emulator. What this lacks in originality it makes up for in sheer swashbuckling.
