Robin Burcell

To me this had the least amount of treasure or historical intrigue - but it did have a lot of adventure and it had believable bad guys (in comparison to the normal 2 dimensional thugs they usually square off against). The Fargos get a call that one of their employees has nephews that have gone off grid and could be in trouble. Sam and Remi decide to go to Morocco to investigate and in the process find themselves on the hunt for the Romanov Ransom. The problem is - they aren't the only ones show more looking for it. Slightly predictable - but always entertaining! show less

For a couple of self-styled archaeologists, the Fargos sure are racking up an impressive headcount. Not every goon that gets it shoots first; and you'd think that at some point a goon would have a family that would sue them for all their billions. But that never happens in this story - the goons are all red shirts just waiting to get what's coming to them.

The story begins with the legend of the Russian dowager empress Maria Feodorovna putting up her considerable personal fortune in an show more attempt to secure the release of the deposed Romanov family following the Bolshevik Revolution. The ransom disappeared, and the family was brutally executed.

This story posits that the fortune was squirreled away, only to be found by the Nazi's in WW2. The fortune was moved to Argentina, where it was supposed to finance German refugees intent on creating the Fourth Reich in what was known as Operation Werewolf.

The story takes our heroes to Morocco, then to Russia, then Poland, then Germany, and finally to South America. All the while they are uncovering baffling clues while being hounded by the "Wolf's Guard," a band of thugs sporting a Wolf tattoo and are part of the not-quite-dead-yet Operation Werewolf. show less

Another exciting case for Sam and Remi. I loved how Cussler brought in another series character (Isaac Bell) to the storyline. For those of you who are also reading the Bell series, you might be wondering how this can be accomplished since the Bell series takes place in the early 1900's. It is artfully accomplished by journals which are read throughout the book. Bell's case and the Fargo's case go hand in hand with one another. Both cases are about a 1906 Rolls-Royce, The Gray Ghost. Throw show more in evil men, guns (of course), an attempt to freeze the Fargo's assets and old cars and a fire engine and Cussler ends up with another hit. show less

Continuing on from the prior book 'Face of a Killer' Special Agent Sydney Fitzpatrick is now an FBI headquarters in Quantico teaching forensic art.

That is, until the mysterious covert government investigator Special Agent Griffin arrives and draws her into a web of corruption, deceit and mystery which commence with the murder of a young woman whose face has been carved off leaving a pyramid of skull behind... and no finger tips for identification either.

From Washington to Rome we follow the show more new stubborn and shifty Special Agent Fitzpatrick to the hidden chamber of a legendary tomb as she hunts down the fabled treasure of the Knights Templar.

I found the Knights Templar part a bit me-tooish when reading the blurb but the author pulls it off in the book so that it's not sensationalized clap-trap but actually a good story with some unforeseen turns. show less