By David Gibbins
Ebook 2 of the Jack Howard series.
From the autumn of the Roman Empire to the final days of Nazi strength, marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his crew of adventurers are scorching at the path of history’s such a lot elusive and wanted treasure: the misplaced golden menorah of Jerusalem. And what they notice may switch the realm forever….
Deep underneath the windswept waters close to Istanbul, Jack and his crack staff of specialists have exposed a stunning clue to the positioning of the fabled treasure plundered throughout the Crusades. in the meantime, in a dusty cathedral library, anyone finds a long-forgotten medieval map. jointly the 2 discoveries will remedy an old mystery—and spark a race to forestall a present-day conspiracy of impressive proportions.
From diving into the middle of an arctic iceberg to the final stand of a Viking warship to a rare revelation deep within the jungles of significant the United States, Jack is headed instantly right into a globe-spanning conflict of civilizations, into an superb underground labyrinth steeped in blood and horrors—and to a war of words with a killer on a shattering campaign of his personal.
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The thought made him laugh. It was not, Sharpe suspected, the anticipation of excitement that had brought Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill to this state of near joviality, but rather the thought that a battle would cause casualties and misery, and misery was the Sergeant's delight. He liked to see men cowed and frightened, for that made them biddable, and Sergeant Hakeswill was always at his happiest when he was in control of unhappy men. The three officers had stopped their horses at the head of the column and now used telescopes to inspect the distant ridge which was clouded by a ragged fringe of smoke left from the last discharge of the enemy cannon.
See it? ' His face twitched again as he released the stock. ' 'Mad as a hare, ' Tom Garrard muttered. ' Hakeswill whipped around to stare at Sharpe, but Sharpe was so palpably still and staring mutely ahead that his innocence was indisputable. Hakeswill paced back down the Light Company. 'I have watched men die, better men than any of you pieces of scum, proper men, but God has spared me! So you do what I says, boys, or else you'll be carrion. ' He abruptly thrust the musket back into Sharpe's hands.
Instead he leaned forward in his saddle with one hand clasped over the tiger hilt of his curved sabre as he watched his infantry march on the infidel British. The sword was slung on a silken sash that crossed the pale yellow silk jacket that the Tippoo wore above chintz trousers. His turban was of red silk and pinned with a gold badge showing a tiger's mask. ' Above it, pinned to the turban's brief white plume and brilliant in the day's sunlight, there glittered a ruby the size of a pigeon's egg.