There are dark storm clouds gathering above a land of mystery and antiquity. And no one will escape the fury of the tempest to come.
Amelia Peabody # 12
William Morrow
June 2000
On Sale: June 1, 2000
Featuring: Amelia Peabody; Radcliffe Emerson; Ramses Emerson
400 pages ISBN: 0380976595 EAN: 9780380976591 Kindle: B000FC123C Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The pursuit of knowledge must never be deterred by Man's folly. So the close of 1914 finds Amelia Peabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson back in Egypt for another season of archaeological excavation - despite the increasing danger of an attack on the Suez Canal and on Egypt itself. Trouble is brewing in Cairo and the defiantly pacifist stance of Amelia and Emerson's headstrong son Ramses is earning the young man the derision, and much worse, of the British expatriate community. Meanwhile, the charismatic nationalist el Wardani is said to be fomenting insurrection in the ancient city. And since there is no way to stand outside the political hurricane that is suddenly threatening their lives, Amelia plunges directly into it.
When el Wardani escapes a police dragnet, thanks to the direct intervention of Amelia and Emerson, the family's stake in a perilous game is raised considerably. But it's Ramses' strange secret roll in it that could truly bring ruin down up on all their heads. However, there is more than intrigue and espionage, plots and counterplots, at work here. For an artifact uncovered at a Giza dig - an exquisite sculpture found where it ought not to be - confirms Amelia's most unsettling suspicion: that the chaos consuming Cairo has masked the nefarious reemergence of Amelia's villainous archmenesis, Sethos, the Master Criminal.
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