David Gibbins

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 ...

Atlantis

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time. The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror. The SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II. Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships and their wrecks have been an inevitable part of human history. Archaeologists have made spectacular discoveries excavating these sunken ships, their protective underwater cocoon keeping evidence of past civilizations preserved. Now, for the first time, world renowned maritime archeologist David Gibbins ties together the stories of some of the most significant shipwrecks in time to form a single overarching narrative of world history. A History of the World in 12 Shipwrecks is not just the story of those ships, the people who sailed on them, and the cargo and treasure they carried, but also the story of the spread of people, religion, and ideas around the world; it is a story of colonialism, migration, and the indominable human spirit that continues today. From the glittering Bronze Age, to the world of Caesar's Rome, through the era of the Vikings, to the exploration of the Arctic, Gibbins uses shipwrecks to tell all. Drawing on decades of experience excavating shipwrecks around the world, Gibbins reveals the riches beneath the waves and shows us how the treasures found there can be a porthole to the past that tell a new story about the world and its underwater secrets.

A History of the World in 12 Shipwrecks

Jack Howard becomes part of a terrifying legacy and a race against time, in the action-packed new adventure from bestselling author David Gibbins. Greece. 1876. Heinrich Schliemann, the great archaeologist, raises the Mask of Agamemnon and makes a mind-blowing discovery. Determined to keep it a secret until the time is right, he then dies. Germany. 1945. The liberation of a concentration camp reveals clues to lost antiquities stolen by the Nazis. But the operation is covered up after a deadly secret surfaces. Northern Aegean. Present day. Marine archaeologist Jack Howard discovers a shipwreck, part of the war fleet of Agamemnon, king of the Greeks, and soon becomes embroiled in a desperate chase across Europe against a ruthless enemy...

The Mask of Troy

Crusader Gold is the stunning follow up to 2005's bestselling debut Atlantis. For many it is the Jewish menorah, the huge golden candlestick looted by the Romans in AD 70 then carried to Constantinople. Now, nobody knows where it is. Some think it survived and is concealed in the Vatican. Some think it took an 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. 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...

Crusader Gold

Inspirado no lançamento muito aguardado do jogo Total War: Rome II, Destruição de Cartago é o primeiro livro de uma série de romances épicos. O título de estreia, que se passa em Cartago, em 146 a.C., conta a história do legionário e centurião romano Fábio Petrônio II, de seu general Cipião Emiliano e da ascensão do general ao poder, desde sua primeira batalha contra os macedônios à guerra total no Norte da África e no Cerco de Cartago. O sucesso de Cipião lhe traz admiração e respeito, porém também suscita cobiça e inveja. Até que ponto ele está preparado para se sacrificar por Roma? Esta é não apenas a história do destino de um homem, mas também uma jornada à essência da época romana, marcada por um mundo de táticas militares extraordinárias e de intrigas políticas que os guerreiros e cidadãos romanos usavam para ludibriar a morte.

Total War Rome: Destruição de Cartago (Vol. 1)

Le indagini archeologiche del professor Howard. Il sigillo maledetto dei Templari – Il vangelo proibito – Il tesoro della legione fantasma. 3 romanzi in 1

Total War Rome. Distruggi Cartagine

Ier siècle après JC, Herculanum. L'empereur romain Claude, au seuil de la mort, s'apprête à accomplir sa dernière tâche et tenir une promesse qu'il a faite à un homme il y a très longtemps, au bord d'un lac, dans le désert... Une promesse dont les conséquences pourraient ébranler les fondements de la civilisation occidentale. De nos jours, au large de la Sicile, Jack Howard est à la recherche des vestiges du naufrage de saint Paul lorsque des confrères le pressent de les rejoindre à Naples, pour participer à leurs travaux. Très vite, l'archéologue comprend que les deux fouilles sont intimement liées. Jack se lance alors dans une quête haletante, qui le mène de la cité d'Herculanum aux entrailles de Londres, Rome et Tel-Aviv. Si ses intuitions sont justes, il pourrait mettre au jour le plus grand secret de l'histoire occidentale. Un secret bouleversant, enfoui depuis des millénaires, que d'autres veulent à tout prix laisser dans l'ombre...

Le dernier évangile

Jack Howard's team is excavating an underwater site in the Red Sea when they hear a tale of a lost labyrinth of canals, palaces, and tombs beneath Cairo, leading them into a world three thousand years back in history holding a great secret.

Pharaoh

INQUISITION is the latest thrilling novel from Sunday Times bestselling author David Gibbins. Jack Howard will be tested to his limits on the trail of the fabled Holy Grail. '[The] Da Vinci Code of the deep sea' Daily Express AD 256. In Rome the emperor Valerian persecutes the Christians. Under cover of darkness, Pope Sixtus entrusts their most sacred object with a loyal follower and the Holy Grail disappears from history. 1684. Samuel Pepys has been sent by King Charles II to oversee the evacuation of the English colony of Tangier. However, he has another task; to retrieve an incredible treasure which has resurfaced after more than a thousand years. But Pepys is not the only one searching. In Portugal, the Inquisition tortures a merchant suspected of being the key to the treasure, and they will do anything to get their hands on it ... Present day. A 17th-century shipwreck off the Cornish coast reveals clues to an ancient mystery Jack Howard had thought beyond solving. Following these clues will take him on an epic quest from North Africa to the sunken ruins of the pirate city of Port Royal. But the spectre of the Inquisition dogs his steps with deadly determination, and Jack must overcome a descent into hell itself for the greatest reward in Christendom - the fabled Holy Grail.

Inquisition

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? This 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 as he discovers the secret and must prevent others from doing the same...

The Last Gospel

Marine archaeologist Jack Howard follows the Silk Route to uncover the mystery of an ancient Roman army's disappearance, and discovers secrets about dangerous artifacts and his own family history.

The Tiger Warrior

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time. The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror. The SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II. Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships and their wrecks have been an inevitable part of human history. Archaeologists have made spectacular discoveries excavating these sunken ships, their protective underwater cocoon keeping evidence of past civilizations preserved. Now, for the first time, world renowned maritime archeologist David Gibbins ties together the stories of some of the most significant shipwrecks in time to form a single overarching narrative of world history. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks is not just the story of those ships, the people who sailed on them, and the cargo and treasure they carried, but also the story of the spread of people, religion, and ideas around the world; it is a story of colonialism, migration, and the indominable human spirit that continues today. From the glittering Bronze Age, to the world of Caesar's Rome, through the era of the Vikings, to the exploration of the Arctic, Gibbins uses shipwrecks to tell all. Drawing on decades of experience excavating shipwrecks around the world, Gibbins reveals the riches beneath the waves and shows us how the treasures found there can be a porthole to the past that tell a new story about the world and its underwater secrets.

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

From an extraordinary discovery in a remote desert oasis to a desperate race against time in the ocean depths, a team of adventurers is about to find the truth behind the most baffling legend in history. The hunt is on for… Marine archaeologist Jack Howard has stumbled upon the keys to an ancient puzzle. With a crack team of scientific experts and ex–Special Forces commandos, he is heading for what he believes could be the greatest archaeological find of all time—the site of fabled Atlantis—while a ruthless adversary watches his every move and prepares to strike. But neither of them could have imagined what awaits them in the murky depths. Not only a shocking truth about a lost world, but an explosive secret that could have devastating consequences today. Jack is determined to stop the legacy of Atlantis from falling into the wrong hands, whatever the cost. But first he must do battle to prevent a global catastrophe.

La 4ème de couverture indique : En 9000 avant J.-C., selon Platon, se dressait, au milieu de l'Atlantique, une île peuplée par des guerriers, les Atlantes. Mais, en quelques heures funestes, elle fut engloutie par les flots... De nos jours, au large de la Grèce. Lors de l'exploration sous-marine d'une épave, l'archéologue Jack Howard trouve un disque en or massif qui donnerait la clé de la cité perdue. Au même moment, dans une nécropole égyptienne, le professeur Hiebermeyer découvre sur une momie un papyrus rédigé en grec ancien qui mentionne Atlantis et révèle son emplacement... Avec ces deux découvertes, toute la science archéologique est remise en cause. Et même les plus sceptiques doivent se rendre à la raison : l'Atlandide n'est peut-être pas un mythe mais une réalité...

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 Great’s successors, to total war in North Africa and the Siege of Carthage. Scipio’s success brings him admiration and respect, but also attracts greed and jealousy – for the closest allies can become the bitterest of enemies. And then there is the dark horse, Julia, of the Caesar family – in love with Scipio but betrothed to his rival Paullus – who causes a vicious feud. Ultimately for Scipio it will come down to one question: how much is he prepared to sacrifice for his vision of Rome? Inspired by Total War: Rome II, from the bestselling Total War series, Destroy Carthage is the first in an epic series of novels. Not only the tale of one man’s fate, it is also a journey to the core of Roman times, through a world of extraordinary military tactics and political intrigue that Rome’s warriors and citizens used to cheat death.

Based on the bestselling game

Total War Rome: Destroy Carthage

"Sword of Attila begins with the fall of Carthage to the Vandals in AD 439. Rome has already been sacked by the Goths, Britain has been abandoned and the empire in the west is feeling the brunt of barbarian invasions laying waste to the provinces and leading to uneasy alliances with Germanic warlords. As the last remaining Romans flee Africa, a new and more ominous threat emerges, to Romans and their new allies alike - a power from the east like no other since the days of the Persian empire, the Hun army under their general Attila. Can a small band of Roman officers, steeped in the tradition of the old ways, admirers of Polybius and Scipio and Caesar, bring back to Roman arms the glory that once made her great? Or is the idea of Rome now lost to history, a Rome where every second legionary is a barbarian, where it is the new warlords who see themselves as the true inheritors of Roman military glory? Inspired by Total War: Rome II, from the bestselling Total War series, Sword of Atilla is the second installment in an epic series of novels. Only one final battle will tell, a battle that the last dying Sibyl had foretold would see the earth dry up and the rivers be replaced with torrents of gore, where the victors would be the ones who drank their own blood .."--

The Sword of Attila

A soldier-of-fortune's search for a lost artifact takes him from the jungles of India to the lost tomb of a Chinese emperor.

The fall of Rome was just the beginning. A new empire will rise . . . AD 439: the Roman Empire is on the brink of collapse. With shocking speed a Vandal army has swept through the Roman provinces of Spain and north Africa, conquering Carthage and threatening Roman control of the Mediterranean. But a far greater threat lies to the east, a barbarian force born in the harsh steppelands of Asia, warriors of unparalleled savagery who will sweep all before them in their thirst for conquest - the army of Attila the Hun. For a small group of Roman soldiers and a mysterious British monk, the only defence is to rise above the corruption and weakness of the Roman emperors and hark back to the glory days of the Roman army centuries before, to find strength in history. But then they devise a plan of astonishing audacity that will take them to the heart of darkness itself, to the stronghold of the most feared warrior-king the world has ever known. In the showdown to come, in the greatest battle the Romans have ever fought, victory will go to those who can hold high the most potent symbol of war ever wrought by man - the sacred sword of Attila.

Total War: Rome

The latest Jack Howard thriller from internationally bestselling mastermind David Gibbins. 258 As the blood of martyred Christians runs through Rome's catacombs, Pope Sixtus entrusts their most sacred object to a devoted follower. Soon after, the Holy Grail disappears into the darkness of time. 1684 While overseeing the evacuation of the English colony of Tangier, Samuel Pepys attempts to retrieve a treasure which has resurfaced after more than a thousand years. Meanwhile, a Jewish merchant is tortured by the Altamanus, a secret group determined to locate the Grail. Present Day A wreck off the Cornish coast reveals clues to a mystery that marine archaeologist Jack Howard had thought beyond solving. He embarks on an epic quest that takes him to the sunken ruins of the pirate city of Port Royal in Jamaica. But the specter of the deadly Inquisition dogs his every step, and Jack must face a descent into hell itself if he is to uncover the greatest reward in Christendom. Gibbins, who has led numerous underwater archeology expeditions around the world, writes with an authority that makes “the astounding seem more than plausible” (Parmenion Books). This latest Jack Howard novel brings together historical details and a thrilling plot for an action-packed adventure.

David Gibbins

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