by Paul Sussman
Last, and most important of all, to my beautiful wife, without whose love, support and strength this book would never have been finished.
THE LOST ARMY OF CAMBYSES
by Paul Sussman
In 523 BC, the Persian pharaoh Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt's western desert to destroy the oracle at Siwa. Legend has it that somewhere in the middle of the Great Dune Sea his army was overwhelmed by a sandstorm and lost for ever . . .
Two and a half millennia later a mutilated corpse is washed up on the banks of the Nile at Luxor, an antiques dealer is savagely murdered in Cairo, and a British archaeologist is found dead at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara.
The incidents appear unconnected, but Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police is suspicious, as is the archaeologist's daughter, Tara Mullray. Lured into a labyrinth of intrigue, violence and betrayal by a mysterious hieroglyphic fragment and rumours of a fabulous lost tomb, what began as a search for the truth becomes a race for survival. Confronted both by present day adversaries and ghosts from their pasts, Khalifa and Mullray find themselves on a trail that leads into the desert's unforgiving, burning heart, and the answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world . . .
A thrilling, adrenalin-packed archaeological adventure, The Lost Army of Cambyses marks the debut of an outstanding new storyteller.
'A TREMENDOUS ADVENTURE, ONE OF THE MOST INTRIGUING MYSTERIES OF THE PAST, A GREAT NOVEL MASTERFULLY WRITTEN' Valerio Massimo Manfredi
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THE EIGHT
by Katherine Neville
'READERS THRILLED BY THE DA VINCI CODE WILL RELISH THE MULTI-LAYERED SECRETS OF THE EIGHT Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club
For centuries a secret has been carefully hidden from those who would abuse its power. One daring and enigmatic woman gives her life to defy the rules and protect history from changing course forever.
With France aflame in revolution, and the power of her king checked, the nuns of Montglane Abbey are forced to unearth a secret buried for a thousand years within their fortress walls. As the women scatter across the world they take with them the pieces of a mystical chess set given to Charlemagne by eight mysterious Moors. Embedded in each piece of chess service is a code. Whoever reassembles the pieces can play a game of unlimited power – a game that will bring about the end of all kings.
Centuries later, another young woman is chosen to join those protecting the missing pieces – will she deduce the answer to the greatest riddle of all time?
'BLENDS HISTORICAL FICTION AND MEDIEVAL MYSTERY AND COMES UP WITH GOLD' People
'FASCINATING . . . MIND-BOGGLING' Newsday
'BOTH VIBRANT AND CEREBRAL . . . FEW WILL FIND IT RESISTIBLE' Los Angeles Times Book Review
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GENESIS OF THE GRAIL KINGS
by Laurence Gardner
'EPIC IN ITS SCOPE AND IMPLICATIONS. A CONTROVERSIAL WORK, BUT ONE WHOSE TIME HAS SURELY COME' Nexus
From beneath the windswept sands of ancient Mesopotamia comes an extraordinary story which predates the Bible by thousands of years: the story of the clinical cloning of Adam and Eve.
Drawing on cuneiform texts, cylinder seals and long-suppressed archives, bestselling historian and genealogist Laurence Gardner reveals the truth behind the alchemical Bloodline of the Holy Grail, including:
The hidden secrets of the Tables of Testimony
The anti-gravitational science of the pyramid pharoahs
A history of God and the lords of eternity
The disclosures of the Phoenix and the Philosophers' Stone
The superconductive powers of monatomic gold
A genetic key to the evolutionary Missing Link
Active longevity and the Star Fire magic of Eden
Controversial, authoritative and enlightening, Genesis of the Grail Kings is essential reading for everyone interested in the untold history of the civilised world.
'A TRULY GROUNDBREAKING PIECE OF WORK. THE COMPLICATED AND VAST MATERIAL IS HANDLED SUPERBLY . . . ABSOLUTELY MINDBLOWING!'
Science of Thought Review
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