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A brilliant atmospheric thriller, set in Cairo and the surrounding tombs and deserts, involving the threat of the past entwined with present deaths and future machinations. Omar Ross, a maverick archaeologist, is disturbed by the death at the foot of the pyramids of Giza, of his old colleague, a famous Egyptologist, Richard Cranwell. Cranwell had become obsessed by his search for the legendary lost city of Zerzura. Ross's suspicions become further aroused by documents left referring to other show more deaths, of Carnarvon, of Wingate, of Carter, all linked by the inscription for the god Thoth. It seems as if Cranwell had been on the verge of a great discovery; but every contact, every informant, disappears: Cranwell's body itself is lost and Ross, threatened, beleagured and friendless, turns to his mother's family, of the Bedouin tribe. This is a first novel with a difference. Written with great confidence, it is rich with Egyptian mythology and history, its new discoveries are plausible and convincing, the secret organizations and believers complex and frightening, and the cast of characters lively and varied. show lessTags
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I picked this up in a charity shop as I like Egyptology novels. Sadly, this was really not a good one. Struggled through it due to one-dimensional characters and a formulaic plot. And the world really doesn't need any more books associating aliens from outer space with ancient Egypt....
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- Omar James Ross (maverick archaeologist); Julian Cranwell (neurotic Egyptologist); Boutros Hammoudi (Captain | Copt | policeman); Dr. Evelyn Barrington; Nikolai Kolpos; Aurel Karlman (Professor) (show all 7); Father Mikhaelis
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