The Lost Army of Cambyses
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reading November 2005
keeping
7.5 --
myst intl
Now here's a book that would make a really good movie. I don't often say that, because I don't often read books I think would hold up well as a movie, but this one definitely would do so. I liked it -- it was fun to read, the mystery was really good and it held my interest this afternoon for a few hours while I was laying low trying not to do anything that required thinking. I would recommend it to all mystery readers (except maybe those mystery readers who only like the cozies); it is a solid mystery story and fun.
Here's a peek:
Tara Mullray is a zoologist in London, and as the story opens, she's ready to take a trip to see her father in Egypt. The two have been somewhat estranged here and there over the years; he is an Egyptologist/Archaeologist working in Saqqara; his life is his career despite the fact that he had a family. So Tara is banking a lot on this trip. Sadly, when she gets to Egypt, he is not there at the airport; she can't believe he would have forgotten her again so she goes off to investigate. When she gets to his working area, and the structure there known as the Dig House, she discovers that he has died of a heart attack. But before he died, he had bought her a fragment containing Egyptian hieroglyphics. But once she finds the fragment, she realizes that there are people after her, and it seems that they want the fragment too.
In the meantime, an Egyptian policeman, Khalifa, is on the trail of someone who seems to be murdering antiquities dealers, and in some not very nice ways. As he starts putting the pieces of the investigation together, he realizes that the man he is after is a wanted terrorist. After further investigation, both story lines come together and involve a heretofore unknown tomb, a legend of a lost army of 50,000 which had been documented by Herodotus, and a terrorist plot to corner the antiquities market internationally.
As I said, it's really a fun read; the author's either got another book out or is putting another one out that I'm looking forward to reading as soon as possible. The dialogue is a bit overdramatic, but otherwise block out some time for yourself if you're planning to read this book.
7.5 --
myst intl
Now here's a book that would make a really good movie. I don't often say that, because I don't often read books I think would hold up well as a movie, but this one definitely would do so. I liked it -- it was fun to read, the mystery was really good and it held my interest this afternoon for a few hours while I was laying low trying not to do anything that required thinking. I would recommend it to all mystery readers (except maybe those mystery readers who only like the cozies); it is a solid mystery story and fun.
Here's a peek:
Tara Mullray is a zoologist in London, and as the story opens, she's ready to take a trip to see her father in Egypt. The two have been somewhat estranged here and there over the years; he is an Egyptologist/Archaeologist working in Saqqara; his life is his career despite the fact that he had a family. So Tara is banking a lot on this trip. Sadly, when she gets to Egypt, he is not there at the airport; she can't believe he would have forgotten her again so she goes off to investigate. When she gets to his working area, and the structure there known as the Dig House, she discovers that he has died of a heart attack. But before he died, he had bought her a fragment containing Egyptian hieroglyphics. But once she finds the fragment, she realizes that there are people after her, and it seems that they want the fragment too.
In the meantime, an Egyptian policeman, Khalifa, is on the trail of someone who seems to be murdering antiquities dealers, and in some not very nice ways. As he starts putting the pieces of the investigation together, he realizes that the man he is after is a wanted terrorist. After further investigation, both story lines come together and involve a heretofore unknown tomb, a legend of a lost army of 50,000 which had been documented by Herodotus, and a terrorist plot to corner the antiquities market internationally.
As I said, it's really a fun read; the author's either got another book out or is putting another one out that I'm looking forward to reading as soon as possible. The dialogue is a bit overdramatic, but otherwise block out some time for yourself if you're planning to read this book.
