Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Kingdom
    Unavailable
    The Kingdom
    Unavailable
    The Kingdom
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Kingdom

    Written by Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    Sam and Remi Fargo return for the thrilling third adventure in the acclaimed new series.

    In Spartan Gold and Lost Empire, Clive Cussler brought readers into the world of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo, whose passion and instinct for treasure-hunting has led to extraordinary discoveries-and perilous journeys.

    Their next adventure, however, might be their most astonishing yet.

    The Fargos are used to hunting for treasure, not people. But then a Texas oil baron contacts them with a personal plea: an investigator friend of the Fargos' was on a mission to find the oil baron's missing father-and now the investigator is missing, too. Would Sam and Remi be willing to look for them both? Though something about the situation doesn't quite add up, the Fargos agree to go on the search.

    What they find will be beyond anything they could have imagined. On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India, and China, the Fargos will find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils, a centuries-old puzzle chest, the ancient Tibetan kingdom of Mustang, a balloon aircraft from a century before its time . . . and a skeleton that could turn the history of human evolution on its head.

    Packed with the endless imagination and breathtaking suspense that are his hallmarks, The Kingdom once again proves that Clive Cussler is "just about the best storyteller in the business" (New York Post).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 7, 2011
    ISBN9781101526262
    Unavailable
    The Kingdom
    Author

    Clive Cussler

    Clive Cussler (1931–2020) was the author or coauthor of over eighty books in five bestselling series, including DIRK PITT®, THE NUMA FILES®, THE OREGON FILES ®, AN ISAAC BELL ADVENTURE ®, A SAM AND REMI FARGO ADVENTURE ®, and A KURT AUSTIN ADVENTURE ®. His nonfiction works include Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, Built to Thrill: More Classic Automobiles from Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, The Sea Hunters, and The Sea Hunters II; these describe the true adventures of the real NUMA, which, led by Cussler, searches for lost ships of historic significance. With his crew of volunteers, Cussler discovered more than sixty ships, including the long-lost Civil War submarine Hunley. 

    Related to The Kingdom

    Related audiobooks

    Crime Thriller For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Risk Becoming A Braai Bore Or Even Worse

      Dec 29, 2023

      Alexandria: The City That Changed The World by Islam Issa (Sceptre, R470) This is an impressive history of an impressive city. Legend has it that Egypt's Alexandria was funded by Alexander the Great, though he did not live to see the finished splendo

      5 min read

    • Article

      For March, 3 Romances That Fight For Love

      Mar 19, 2019

      True love finds a way amid food trucks, ice skates and ... knife throwing? In other words, March is just another month in Romancelandia, and we've got three stories of people fighting hard for love.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Science Fiction And Fantasy

      Nov 3, 2022

      Peng Shepherd Orion 2022 Hb, 392pp, £14.99, ISBN 9781398709928 Map-makers sometimes include false information in a map – a made-up river name, or a small street or hamlet – to catch other map-makers stealing and copying their maps. But what if one of

      4 min read

    • Article

      Crusader Kinks

      Jul 22, 2021

      Crusader Kinks
      7 min read

    • Article

      Read! Read!

      Apr 11, 2021

      Pepper has always wanted to join her father on the RMS Aquitania to New York. Travelling First Class is glamorous, but when the famous Saffron Diamond disappears, Pepper is tangled up in the crime. With her father’s reputation as Captain to protect,

      1 min read

    • Article

      Crusader Kinks

      Aug 10, 2021

      Crusader Kinks
      7 min read

    • Article

      Hot Right Now!

      Apr 20, 2023

      Hot Right Now!
      1 min read

    • Article

      Crusader Kinks

      Sep 6, 2021

      Crusader Kinks
      7 min read

    • Article

      Politics, Princesses, And High-flying Drama

      Jul 21, 2023

      It can be difficult to classify a book which has a cow's rear end on the back cover and, on the front cover, a ruminating cow's front end with a road sign pointing to the mustlive-in towns of Darling and Shaka's Rock. Is the book speculation, literat

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Shooting Times Almanac 19 – 26 JULY 2023

      Jul 19, 2023

      The villages of South and North Queensferry, in West Lothian and Fife respectively, take their name from Queen Margaret, wife of King Malcolm III of Scotland. A pious woman, she was the first person to establish a crossing point on the Firth of Forth

      2 min read

    • Article

      Bird’s Eye View

      Oct 27, 2022

      Bird’s Eye View
      2 min read

    • Article

      Roller-coaster Ride

      Feb 3, 2023

      By JANE HARPER Macmillan A new book from Australian crime-thriller writer Harper is always something to be excited about. In this, her fifth novel, she brings back Melbourne investigator Aaron Falk introduced in her amazing first novel, The Dry. Aar

      3 min read

    • Article

      Thrilling & inspiring

      Oct 30, 2020

      Charlie Parker arrives in Car-gill, Arkansas. He has been drawn there by the deaths of three young girls who seem to have been killed in the same way that his wife and daughter were murdered. The local police reluctantly ask him to help them find the

      1 min read

    • Article

      Guerillas, Gems And Gruesome Murders

      Oct 7, 2022

      In 1987, respected British journalist Bridgland published a largely positive biography of the Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi. Bridgland's new book on the guerrilla commander, who was the hero of the West, has an unusual sting in the tale. Bridgla

      2 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Mar 9, 2021

      The follow-up to Laura’s award-winning debut Blood & Sugar, this enthralling historical novel sees us back in the late eighteenth century. When Caroline ‘Caro’ Corsham finds a well-dressed woman is wounded, police are quick to act until they realise

      1 min read

    • Article

      Watch!

      Feb 13, 2022

      The campers sail away and leave Isla Nublar behind, but after an incident at sea with a Mosasaurus, they wash ashore on a strange island. Ben, Brooklynn, Darius, Kenji, Sammy and Yasmina must survive new environments crawling with mysterious threats.

      1 min read

    • Article

      A Murder, Two Mysteries And Tasty Recipes

      Feb 2, 2024

      Geologist and mining engineer Norman spent several decades nagged by the question of why in South America he’d see familiar-looking relatives of the woodpecker, coral tree, yellowwood and even Karoo rocks when thousands of miles of Atlantic Ocean div

      2 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Sep 1, 2022

      knew his seams both false & true, his garters, nifty eyelets. A gainful trade,stockings being what they were: always ruined or runneled: even Queen E’s silk fixed, darned at the tooes. He owned a brickworks, too. Wrote novels. Pamphlets. One about re

      2 min read

    • Article

      Read! Read!

      Jan 15, 2024

      Lil and her pet crow, Augustus Scratchy, live at the Squawking Mackerel inn, where Lil does the grossest jobs (and Augustus steals). A villainous gang is attacking travellers, and customers are scared. Joining forces with Ned, a new servant, Lil plot

      1 min read

    Reviews for The Kingdom

    4/5

    155 ratings14 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      Around the world in 80 days, landed in Shangri-La. What fun. Suspend the laws of physics and skim over the characters. Add a little history, imagination, a treasure hunt, communist Chinese in the employ of the evil villain. There you have it. A Cussler book that's not a Cussler book. Wow! Next, please?
    • 4/5
      The Fargo's, Sam and Remi, are back. They are hired (actually they are willing to do the work for free) by a billionaire named King who wants them to find a friend of their's, Alton, who has gone missing while working for King to try and locate his father. The strange thing is that King's father has been missing for almost 40 years. So, why look for him now?

      The Fargo's accept the task because they want to find their friend Alton. But upon arriving at Katmandu they are greeted by King's son and daughter, who are a bit different, and end up being the evil children of an controlling father. Oh, not to mention that there is a young Asian woman who is King's assistant that appears to be more than just an assistant, maybe a mistress, maybe the kids mother, maybe a ruthless killer.

      The reading is fast paced, as usual with a Cussler work. The story a bit implausible, but that makes it more fun. Lots of action, lots of twists and turns just like you expect from any of his work.
    • 4/5
      The Fargo series is the weakest of Cussler's franchises, but still entertaining. This particular one moves faster than most, breezing through the requisite historical prologues and jumping in to the action. The Antagonist is a bit two dimensional, although with a few interesting familial quirks; and the denouement, when it finally comes, is rushed and a bit unsatisfactory. Still a pleasant beach-read, but not a classic.
    • 3/5
      Sam and Remi Fargo, everyone's favorite treasure hunting couple, have been recruited by one of the wealthiest men in the world to help find one of his missing researcher. The researcher in question happens to be one of Sam and Remi's friends so they take the job and head out to Nepal. While there, they discover that their "employer" on this mission is not being entirely truthful and they may in fact have been recruited under nefarious circumstances. Sam and Remi Fargo find themselves trying to unravel several mysteries at once, who or what are they really searching for, and what will happen if they find it. Their latest adventure will take all over Tibet, Nepal, India, and China and the clues have never been more complex. Impossible puzzle boxes, evil twins, black market fossils, and gold coins make this an adventure they will never forget.
    • 2/5
      I am beginning to realize that Clive Cussler is writing less and less of his books. Cussler-type adventure but not Cussler-like prose.
    • 5/5
      Another great Cussler tale - a bit of history, a bit of travel, a great story, and a lot of fun to experience.
    • 4/5
      It's been 2 years since I read the last instalment of the Fargo's adventures (Lost Empire) but even so after the first few pages I was back in the wing of things and didn't feel like I was missing out on critical things like some series books. There's enough overlap to refresh your memory without it being repetitive and dull.

      In terms of the actual plot, if you're fastidious about archaeological practices this may not be the book for you (there's some grave robbing, burning of priceless artefacts and destruction of fossils) but if you're happy to over look such and in return have an exciting adventure mystery then you will likely enjoy this.

      I found it to be a very enjoyable read.
    • 4/5
      Another intriguing story with the Fargos sent off to help a friend and then find themselves having another life changing adventure. The story is mostly set in Nepal but travels into Asia and the surrounding areas. So for people who don't like books that take them away from the US then Cussler is not your author. Cussler makes an appearance as he has in the last several books giving advice to steer the story back on course or in the direction best suited to complete a task. I, again, would recommend the Fargo Adventures to any fan of Cussler and fans of the action adventure genre.
    • 4/5
      This was a bit different than other Cussler books in that the Fargos were not trying to stop a bad guy who has a scheme to destroy the earth. It was more like a Raiders of the Lost Ark-type adventure. I did find myself going to the computer to check locations and characters to see of they were actual or made up by the author. I read this book as a hardback from the library and I would advise Cussler to find a new proofreader as I found many places where words were missing that a good proofreader should have found.
    • 2/5
      An interesting tale but the storyline was marred by too many coincidences and a lack of character development of the villain whose motives are never explained. Not one of Mr Cussler's better works.
    • 2/5
      An avid Cussler reader for years, I have read them all. While I truly enjoyed the early books, I struggle with the ones written over the past 5 years. The historical beginning is very slow and the writing seems very jilted throughout the book. This Fargo Adventure is no different. Sam and Remi are waylaid and convinced that they need to seek out a friend who is missing. The book never circles back to the original intention of the trip and thus I was left feeling like there was no point in them even brining it up in the first place. If you are an avid Cussler fan, read it. If not, skip this one, start at the beginning you will be glad you did.
    • 5/5
      As always, Cussler leaves us breathtakingly following the adventures of Sam and Remi Fargo as they traipse across continents in search of yet another fortune.This time, the 'Golden Man'.The married duo are approached by a wealthy individual who wants them to locate a friend of theirs. In no short order they discover their friend was not missing, but taken and the wealthy man is searching for a relic that is absolutely priceless.True to form, Sam and Remi use their cunning, wit, and adoration of one another to see them through a series of trials that ends, of course, with them finding their lost friend and obtaining the artifact.What they find may defy the current norm for belief as to how mankind evolved.Or is it.... womankind?Yet another brilliant work from Cussler!
    • 1/5
      The worst Cussler co-authored book yet. Very weak plot, sappy dialog, very poor writing from Blackwood. No more Fargo's for this Cussler fan.
    • 3/5
      I was not impressed with this latest adventure of Sam and Remi Fargo. There is too much moving from one implausible scenario to another. The bad guy is never fleshed out, and the Fargo's interaction with him is limited. The ending is anticlimactic. I think Clive Cussler might have too many irons in the fire with all his different series. This book is a lack-luster spot on his shining resume.