Clive Cussler · 2010 · global

Clive Cussler's 2010 Dirk Pitt adventure. Surveying the Aegean, Pitt raises an Ottoman wreck bearing a Roman crown - and foils a night raid on Istanbul's Topkapi Palace. The find draws him into a fanatical plot to restore the Ottoman Empire by setting the Middle East ablaze, along a trail of ancient relics running from the Aegean to Jerusalem and back to Turkey.

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   The Aegean

   While surveying the Aegean, Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino stumble on the wreck of an Ottoman warship - and in its hold a cargo of ancient relics, including a Roman crown, that will draw them into a conspiracy.

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   Jerusalem

   The trail of the relics leads to Jerusalem and the buried history of a Roman galley that vanished carrying treasures looted long ago - clues to a lost 'manifest' whose rediscovery could shake the modern world to its foundations.

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   Istanbul

   In Istanbul, beneath the domes of the Topkapi, Pitt races a fanatical brother and sister - the last of the Ottoman line - who mean to bomb the region into war and raise a new empire from the ashes of the old.