The Lost Army of Cambyses (Yusuf Khalifa)
by Paul Sussman
An adrenaline-packed thriller and archaeological
adventure by and outstanding new storyteller....
In 523 BC, the Persian emperor Cambyses
dispatched an army across Egypt’s western desert to destroy the oracle of Amun
at Siwa. Legend has it that somewhere in the middle of the Great Sand Sea, his
army was overwhelmed by a sandstorm and destroyed. Fifth thousand men were
lost.
At first, the incidents appear unconnected.
Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police is suspicious, however. And so too
is the archaeologist’s daughter, Tara Mullray. As each seeks to uncover the
truth, they find themselves thrown together in a desperate race for
survival—one that forces them to confront not only present-day adversaries but
also ghosts from their own pasts.
From a mysterious fragment of ancient
hieroglyphic text to rumors of a fabulous lost tomb in the Theban Hills, from
the shimmering waters of the Nile to the dusty back streets of Cairo, Khalifa
and Mullray are drawn ever deeper into a labyrinth of violence, intrigue, and
betrayal. It is a path that will eventually lead them into the forbidding,
barren heart of the western desert, and the answer to one of the greatest
mysteries of the ancient world.
At once an adrenaline-packed thriller and a
wonderfully evocative archaeological adventure, The Lost Army of Cambyses marks
the debut of an outstanding new storyteller.
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The Last Secret of the Temple (Yusuf Khalifa)
by Paul Sussman
A pulse-pounding, roller coaster of an
adventure.
When the body of hotel owner Jan Weiss is
discovered at Malqata, an archeological site on the west bank of the Nile, it
looks like a routine investigation for Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor
police. But the more the detective finds out about Weiss, the more he is
reminded of the brutal killing of an Israeli woman at Karnak years ago -- a
murder for which he has always suspected the wrong man had been convicted.
Despite opposition from his superiors and his own misgivings about working with
the Israelis, Khalifa re-opens the case and teams up with hard-nosed Jerusalem
detective Arieh Ben Roi.
At the same time journalist Eva Town receives an
anonymous letter at her Jerusalem home. It requests her help in contacting
“Al-Mulassam” (“The Veiled One”), a Palestinian extremist leader she has
recently interviewed; in return it offers her the scoop of a lifetime.
Against a backdrop of escalating violence
between Israelis and Palestinians, Eva follows up the cryptic letter while
Khalifa and Arieh slowly uncover the unpleasant truth about Jan Weiss. Their
investigations intertwine as they all get further in to the web of duplicity
and intrigue that has at its center an ancient artifact of such potent
symbolism that it could plunge the Middle East into an all-out war.
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