David Gibbins

Cartago, año 146 a.C. Esta es la historia de Fabio Petronio Segundo, legionario romano y centurión y de su ascenso al poder: desde su primera batalla contra los macedonios, que selló el destino del Imperio de Alejandro Magno, hasta la guerra total en el norte de Africa y el asedio de Cartago. El exito de Fabio le aporta admiracion y respeto, pero tambien atrae la codicia y la envidia. Los aliados mas intimos pueden convertirse en los mas amargos enemigos. Ademas, esta la oveja negra de la familia de Cesar, Julia, quien ama tanto a Fabio como a su rival Paulo, provocara una feroz rivalidad. Al final, Fabio se vera obligado a responder a una sola pregunta: ¿hasta que punto esta dispuesto a sacrificarse por su vision de Roma? Inspirada en Total War: Rome II, de la exitosa serie de videojuegos Total War, Destruir Cartago es la primera de una serie de novelas epicas narradas a partir del juego.

Bij een onderwateropgraving in de Bosporus vindt archeoloog Jack Howard iets onverwachts: niet de Menora, het tijdens de kruistochten verdwenen symbool van het joodse volk, maar een Vikingschip uit dezelfde periode. Er zijn echter kapers op de kust.Al snel wordt Jacks team belaagd door leden van een organisatie die zich beschouwt als de ware erfgenaam van de Vikingen. Jacks zoektocht naar de Menora wordt een adembenemende en levensgevaarlijke tocht die hem uiteindelijk tot diep in de Zuid-Amerikaanse jungle voert.

AÑO 439 D.C. El Imperio romano se halla al borde del colapso. Con una rapidez sorprendente, un ejército vándalo ha asolado las provincias romanas de Hispania y el norte de África, conquistando Cartag

From 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 586 BC The ancient world is in meltdown. The Babylonians have ravaged the Holy Land, and Jerusalem has fallen. In desperation, the temple priests look to the greatest navigators ever known to save their holiest of treasures. 1943 A group of Allied codebreakers, under Churchill's direct command, work to stop a top-secret exchange between the Nazis and the Japanese. Yet even they know nothing of the ancient artefact hidden on board a ship whose fate they have just sealed. Present-day Marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his friend Costas undertake a dangerous dive hunting for Nazi gold in a wreck perched on the edge of the continental shelf. What they glimpse there leads Jack to piece together the truth of one of the greatest ancient voyages of discovery, one whose real purpose he could scarcely have imagined.Jack must fuse past and present as he never has done before in a terrifying final showdown on a desperate mission for humanity.

From the author of "Atlantis" comes a mesmerizing new action-adventure thriller, concerning an astonishing search for one of the worlds greatest lost Templar treasures. What marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his team discover could change the world forever. Original.

JACK HOWARD IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER A SECRET. PERHAPS THE GREATEST SECRET EVER KEPT WHAT IF one of the Ancient World''s greatest libraries was buried in volcanic ash and then re-discovered two thousand years later? WHAT IF what was found there was a document that could shatter the very foundations of the Western World? WHAT IF you were the one who discovered this secret? And were then forced to confront terrifying enemies determined to destroy you to ensure it goes no further? David Gibbins electrifying new novel is the story of one last Gospel, left behind in the age of the New Testament, in the greatest days of the Roman Empire , and of its extraordinary secret, one that has lain concealed for years. Follow Jack Howard, man of action and the greatest archaeologist of his day, as he discovers the secret and must prevent others from doing the same...

INQUISITION

History''s greatest code has finally been broken ...Archaeologist Jack Howard is a brave but cautious man. When he embarked on a new search for buried treasure in the Mediterranean, he knew it was a long shot. When he uncovered a golden disc that spoke of a lost civilization more advanced than any in the ancient world, he started to get excited.But when Jack Howard and his intrepid crew finally got close to uncovering the secrets the sea had held for thousands of years, nothing could have prepared them for what they would find ...

THE LAST GOSPEL was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller and Headline is determined to take David Gibbins to the top

AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024 Masterful and entrancing this is big history at its best Professor Alice Roberts author of Ancestors A real life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museums revealing the sunken secrets of the past The Times From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself Henry VIII s spectacular Mary Rose and the golden age of the Tudor court to the exploration of the Arctic the tragic story of HMS Terror and tales of bravery and endurance aboard HMS Gairsoppa in World War Two these are the stories of some of the greatest underwater discoveries of all time A rich and exciting narrative this is not just the story of those ships and the people who sailed on them the cargo and treasure they carried and their tragic fate This is also the story of the spread of people religion and ideas around the world a story of colonialism and migration which continues today Drawing on decades of experience excavating shipwrecks around the world renowned maritime archaeologist David Gibbins reveals the riches beneath the waves and shows us how the treasures found there can be a porthole to the past to tell a new story about the

Carthage, 146 BC. This is the story of Fabius Petronius Secundus Roman legionary and centurion and of his general Scipio Aemilianus, and his rise to power: from his first battle against the Macedonians, that seals the fate of Alexander the Greats successors, to total war in North Africa and the Siege of Carthage.

Archaeologist Jack Howard is a brave but cautious man. When he embarked on a new search for buried treasure in the Mediterranean, he knew it was a long shot. When he uncovered a golden disc that spoke of a lost civilization more advanced than any in the ancient world, he started to get excited. But when Jack Howard and his intrepid crew finally got close to uncovering the secrets the sea had held for thousands of years, nothing could have prepared them for what they would find...

The elusive Crusader Gold: the greatest prize missing from the final bloody conflict of the Crusades. For many it is the Jewish menorah, the huge golden candlestick looted by the Romans in AD70 when they sacked the Temple in Jerusalem and marched through Rome in triumph. It was carried off to Constantinople. Now, nobody knows where it is. Some Jewish activists today think it survived and is concealed in the Vatican. Some think it took another altogether more extraordinary turn, at the beginning of history itself... Jack Howard is the only man who can find out. But the clock is ticking against him. Will ancient history give up one of its darkest secrets? The quest to find out takes him from the fall of the Roman Empire to the last days of Nazi power - and uncovers a trail more thrilling than anyone could have imagined.

Basada en los juegos de estrategia Total War, desarrollados por Creative Assembly y publicados por SEGA.Cartago, año 146 a.C. Esta es la historia de Fabio Petronio Segundo, legionario romano y de su ascenso al poder: desde su primera batalla contra los macedonios, que sello el destino del imperio de Alejandro Magno, hasta la guerra total en el norte de Africa y el asedio de Cartago.El exito de Fabio le aporta admiracion y respeto, pero tambien atrae la codicia y la envidia. Los aliados mas intimos pueden convertirse en los mas amargos enemigos. Ademas, esta la oveja negra de la familia de Cesar, Julia, quien ama tanto a Fabio como a su antagonista Paulo, provocando una feroz rivalidad.Al final, Fabio se vera obligado a responder a una sola pregunta: ¿hasta que punto esta dispuesto a sacrificarse por su vision de Roma?