The Tombs (A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure)

by Clive Cussler

2013

Status

Available

Publication

G.P. Putnam's Sons (2013), Edition: Reprint, 448 pages

Description

Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder . . . a bounty that has never been found. As they follow the trail through Hungary, Italy, France, Russia, and Kazakhstan--a trail that they discover leads them not to one tomb, but five--the Fargos will find themselves pitted against a thieving group of amateur treasure hunters, a cunning Russian businessman, and a ruthless Hungarian who claims direct descent from Attila himself . . . and will stop at nothing to claim the tombs' riches as his own.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member skraft001

Cussler has always asked you to suspend belief -- I abandoned this book because it was so far out there it was both laughable and pitiful,

Imagine this -- a field is archeologically excavated such that in a few days 400 bows are retrieved from 450 A.D, yeah right. Then a few days later we take a

car ride out to a winery field -- wave a metal detector around for a couple hours and find an iron tomb 5 feet underground that they are able to dig down to (and then escape from after someone fills in the hole) all in one night.

This should be in the fantasy rather than fiction section.

I'll never read another Cussler book.

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LibraryThing member TomWheaton

This is the 1st book that Cussler has co-authored with Thomas Perry. I have not read any books by Perry so, I don't know if my disappointment w/ this book can be blamed on the co-author or just a bad write by Cussler. I thought that the 4 searches for Attila's treasures dragged along and the book

never gt exciting until the search for the 5th treasure and the assault on the Fargo's home. All-in-all a disappointing read from this author.

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LibraryThing member teezee65

In many treasure hunting novels, we have to ever-so-slightly push our sense of reality off to the side, so we can enjoy the adventure. Unfortunately, I couldn't push this one far enough to make it bearable.

LibraryThing member dswaddell

A much better book then the last one in the series. The Fargo's are searching for the burial place and treasures of Attila in a race against mobsters who want the treasure for themselve.

LibraryThing member rufusraider

Another excellent book in the Fargo Adventure series. If you enjoy books that have an ancient mystery as part of the plot, this is another good book. This story is about finding the treasures buried by Attila the Hun across Europe and Asia.

LibraryThing member nursewidener

Would you listen to The Tombs again? Why? Yes, the story is interesting in a historical and adventure sense. The characters are as with most of Cussler's characters are well defined and developed in a way that pulls you into the story even if you are not normally an adventure book series person.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Tombs? The fighting scene in which the Fargos are using cannon balls to fight off snipers. The way the Fargos escape the main bad guy's home on horseback after using flour to cause a flash over explosion to set the kitchen on fire. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? Yes, in fact while at working doing the stocking at night my co-workers would give me funny looks because of my random outburst of laughter related to the story. I loved having the story going thru headphones as I worked through the long hours in the very early morning.

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LibraryThing member klaidlaw

I found the writing to be somewhat simplistic--a bit like a poor hamburger with lots of relish and little meat. The plot left me wanting more. The lead characters went from place to place and beat the bad guys at their own game. Even their bad days were good days. There was little or no suspense

until the very end of the book, and given everything that had gone before, the ending was exactly what I expected. I haven't read any of the other books in this series, but it this is typical, I won't be reading them.

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LibraryThing member DavidLErickson

Of all the Clive Cussler characters, I like the archeological adventure team of Sam and Remi Fargo the best. Something about two brave and intelligent people who love each other enormously, who have a sense of humor and are committed to doing good works, is hard to not like.

In this latest

installment the prize is Attila the Hun’s treasure, the bad guy an evil villain who thinks the treasure belongs to him through lineage and his cohorts in a vast criminal empire.

The search for the treasure crosses European borders and is a puzzle to be solved using clues uncovered with each new discovery.

Unlike most of the Cussler novels that include several vastly unbelievable scenes, there was only one that made me laugh at its absurdity. When Sam Fargo steals one of the treasure troves off the bad guy’s yacht right under his very nose.

Other than that, the cast of characters is well developed, the story line marginally believable, and the story arc well modulated and complete.

While technical details were forthcoming, they were just sufficient, not the overwhelming drag on the story as I’ve seen in other Cussler novels.

This latest creation was also quite free of grammar issues and typos, to my immense relief. It’s as if a professional editor was employed this time.

Solid, enjoyable read. One of Cussler’s best.

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LibraryThing member petrichor8

different writing style then previous books, seems choppy to me. Overall, enjoyable read, and interesting plot line.

LibraryThing member buffalogr

Action packed adventure that is the hallmark of this series--so much that it drags in the middle with action. Our heroes search for Attila the Hun's treasure, but so do some really bad guys--almost as bad as Attilla. Many scenes are unbelievable...can only happen in fiction. As always, Cussler's

historical research seems accurate.

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LibraryThing member jamespurcell

Lively story of a hunt for Attila's treasures, well seasoned with vignettes from his life and era.. We visit significant places and times via Attila's travel and conquests to uncover his treasure or recover it from various bad guys. All ends well with violent and noisy shootout in LaJolla capped by

a true grand finale with lots of fireworks.

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LibraryThing member SDaisy

This stand-alone international action/adventure novel is part of the Fargo Adventure series. Like the vast majority of Clive Cussler's books, it has historical undertones, but the setting is contemporary.

Sam and Remi Fargo are a husband and wife team with a peculiar hobby. They happen to be

treasure hunters... but not the typical sense of the term, because it isn't for monetary gain, as they already happen to be rich. They like to recover artifacts of great historical value, and donate such findings to museums to preserve them for future generations. When a friend discovers a vast amount of the bodies of Hun warriors from about 450 AD, he enlists the Fargos' help in excavating. In doing so, a vital clue is discovered... a clue that may lead them to the fabled tomb of Attila the Hun, and the vast treasures that he was supposedly buried with. But Sam and Remi soon realize that they aren't the only ones who want the treasure. There are others on the hunt as well, who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

I enjoyed this book greatly. The history incorporated within and the geography of the many places the Fargos visit in this book were skillfully researched, and were laid out in a way that enthralled the reader rather than boring them. Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry are geniuses of the writing world. The only slight complaint was that it left a small question unanswered (Where do Consolidated Enterprises fit in, and how did they keep finding the Fargos?), but it tied up all of the other loose ends nicely, and that question may be answered in the next book in the series, so it will not effect my rating or overall opinion. Five stars.

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LibraryThing member bxwretlind

Not at all pleased. It seemed to me to be too easy for all the action and the characters were all static. this was my first Fargo adventure and I don't know if I'll try the others very soon.

LibraryThing member ecataldi

These aren't "great literature" but they are fun and I enjoy the audiobooks. This is the fourth adventure for Sam and Remi Fargo, the multimillion dollar amateur treasure hunting couple. One of their friends, a professor from Germany has found something spectacular in a field. It's a perfectly

preserved battlefield filled with dead huns. Little does the professor know though, that he s being watched. When he is kidnapped they fear that he was on to something greater, Atilla the Hun's burial and treasure chamber. It quickly becomes a fast paced action adventure novel that has the Fargos racing across the European and Russian continent to find the treasure before some other unsavory types do. Entertaining - I will continue to read the series.

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