A brilliant atmospheric thriller, set in Cairo and the surrounding tombs and deserts, involving the threat of the past entwined with present deaths and future machinations.
Omar Ross, a maverick archaeologist, is disturbed by the death at the foot of the pyramids of Giza, of his old colleague, a famous Egyptologist, Richard Cranwell. Cranwell had become obsessed by his search for the legendary lost city of Zerzura.
Ross’s suspicions become further aroused by documents left referring to other deaths, of Carnarvon, of Wingate, of Carter, all linked by the inscription for the god Thoth. It seems as if Cranwell had been on the verge of a great discovery; but every contact, every informant, disappears: Cranwell’s body itself is lost and Ross, threatened, beleagured and friendless, turns to his mother’s family, of the Bedouin tribe.
This is a first novel with a difference. Written with great confidence, it is rich with Egyptian mythology and history, its new discoveries are plausible and convincing, the secret organizations and believers complex and frightening, and the cast of characters lively and varied.
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Michael Asher, ex-Army, ex-SAS, is an explorer and writer. He lives in Kenya.
Omar Ross, a maverick archaeologist, is disturbed by the death – and the disappearance of the body – of his colleague, Julian Cranwell, who had become obsessed in his search for a legendary lost city. Somehow this – and the deaths of Tutankhamen, Howard Carte, Orde Wingate and many others – are connected, and as Ross begins to investigate, every contact, every informant disappears. Threatened , almost friendless, Ross turns for help to his mother's people, the Bedouin Hawazim tribe, and it is with them, that he solves the mystery of The Eye of Ra.
'Fast-moving, well written, endlessly exciting, The Eye of Ra excellently conjures up the atmosphere of the desert'
RICHARD BUNDY
'One of the most impressive novels I've read in years. The quality of writ8ing, the characterisation, the plot twists are all excellent. But the true brilliance of the novel is the life in the desert. A stunning achievement; a book to buy and read over and over'
DAVID V BARRETT
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