Many are looking for treasures that have disappeared in the darkness of time...He finds them. Dirk Pitt! An officer and a gentleman. Adventurer and romantic. Don Quixote and the Terminator. Super professional and passionate collector. The legendary man who raised the Titanic from the bottom. A knight without fear or reproach, who has saved humanity from global catastrophes more than once or twice, engaging in mortal combat with maniacs and villains who dreamed of power over the world. Plunge headlong into the fantastic world of incredible adventures on land and sea, on land and under land, on water and under water, in the desert and the tropics, and you will learn how Dirk Pitt and his faithful friends discovered the golden heritage of the Inca Empire destroyed by the conquistadors and what it cost them to wrest from the tenacious clutches of international crime museum treasures that are a universal property.