The Hidden Oasis
by Paul Sussman
"The Hidden Oasis opens in 2152 BC with
eighty priests setting out under cover of darkness into Egypt's Western Desert,
dragging with them a sled on which rests a mysterious object swathed in cloth.
Four weeks later, having reached their destination, the priests calmly slit
each other's throats." "Four thousand years later in present-day
Egypt, professional rock climber Freya Hannen arrives for the funeral of her
sister, Alex, a Saharan explorer. From the outset Freya is suspicious of claims
that Alex had taken her own life, and sets out to uncover what really happened
to her sibling. In her quest for the truth Freya joins forces with Alex's
friend, English academic Flin Brodie, a world authority on the prehistory of
the Sahara. Flin is also searching for answers - he has devoted his career to
tracking down a mythic hidden oasis, an Atlantis of the sands that is reputedly
the final resting place of an iconic stone with extraordinary powers - the
fabled Benben." In this thriller, we follow Flin and Freya on an adventure
that takes them from the towering rock walls of Yosemite National Park to the
teeming backstreets of Cairo, from the spectacular temples of the Nile Valley
to the arid, unforgiving wastes of the Western Desert. The journey is sometimes
violent, often dangerous, frequently surprising, and invariably riveting. At
stake are not simply the answer to one of archaeology's greatest mysteries -
the location of the legendary lost oasis of Zerzura - but also the key to the
astonishing, terrifying secret that lies at the oasis's heart.
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