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100 _aGibbins, David,
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_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aTestament/
_cDavid Gibbins
260 _aLondon :
_bHeadline,
_c2016
300 _a416 p.
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aThe Jack Howard series
_v9
520 8 _aFrom the author of the bestselling ATLANTIS comes a thrilling novel of buried secrets, age-old mysteries and a conspiracy surrounding the fabled Ark of the Covenant. 'What do you get if you cross Indiana Jones with Dan Brown? Answer: David Gibbins' Mirror 664 BC: An adventurer named Hanno returns, near death, to his home city of Carthage on the Mediterranean with an incredible story to tell. With him he brings the flayed skin of a terrifying creature he calls a gorilla, and on it he has written an account of his adventure. The skin is nailed to a pillar in Carthage for all to read, but Hanno's greatest secret he tells only his brother Hamilcar. When Hamilcar disappears during a doomed voyage to the Tin Islands, and Hanno dies having resolved to tell nobody else, the secret is apparently lost for all time. Present day: Jack Howard and his international team are excavating one of the greatest prizes of Jack's career - a Phoenician shipwreck off the coast of Cornwall and evidence for the earliest Mediterranean contact with Britain. What Jack finds is incredible - an amphora shard with an inscription in the Punic language of Carthage, apparently written hastily by someone who knew shipwreck was imminent. When the inscription is translated its message beggars belief. Jack realises it could lead to one of the greatest lost treasure of antiquity, and set him on one of his greatest adventures ever...
650 0 _aMarine archaeologists
_vFiction.
_926388
650 0 _aUnderwater archaeology
_vFiction.
_926392
650 0 _aDisappeared persons
_vFiction.
_920794
650 0 _aThriller
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650 0 _98799
_aSecrecy
_vFiction.
655 0 _aSuspense fiction.
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650 0 _9471
_aTreasure troves
_vFiction.
830 4 _aThe Jack Howard series
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