Synopses & Reviews
“A frothy, swashbuckling tale of high adventure….Escapist fiction at its ultimate.”
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Seattle Times“It has a plot as satisfying as an Indiana Jones film and offers enough historical knowledge to render the reader a fascinating raconteur on the topics of ancient Egypt and Napoleon Bonaparte.”
—USA Today
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author William Dietrich introduces readers to the globe-trotting American adventurer Ethan Gage in Napoleons Pyramids—an ingenious, swashbuckling yarn whose action-packed pages nearly turn themselves. The first book in Dietrichs fabulously fun New York Times bestselling series, Napoleons Pyramids follows the irrepressible Gage—a brother in spirit to George MacDonald Frasers Flashman—as he travels with Napoleons expedition across the burning Egyptian desert in an attempt to solve a 6,000 year old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion. Here is superior adventure fiction in the spirit of Jack London, Robert Lewis Stevenson, and H. Rider Haggard, and fans of their acclaimed successors—James Rollins, David Liss, Steve Berry, Kate Mosse—will certainly want to get to know Ethan Gage.
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"This work is rousing, swashbuckling fun and proof that a good writer can make history not only interesting but an exhilarating romp." Library Journal
Synopsis
Acquiring an ancient medallion covered in seemingly indecipherable symbols, expatriate American Ethan Gage is forced to flee for his life when he is framed for murder and forced to accompany Napoleon Bonaparte on the emperor's quest to conquer Egypt. By the author of The Scourge of God. 50,000 first printing.
Synopsis
An 18th-century explorer travels to Egypt as part of Napoleon's great expedition, where he stumbles into a deadly 6,000-year-old mystery. Dietrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is also the author of The Scourge of God and Hadrian's Wall.
Synopsis
< p=""> Ethan Gage, assistant to Ben Franklin and expatriate American in post& ndash; Revolutionary France, wins an ancient& ndash; & ndash; and possibly cursed& ndash; & ndash; medallion in a card game. Covered in seemingly undecipherable symbols, the medallion seems linked to an ancient Masonic mystery. That night, Ethan is framed for a prostitute's murder and barely escapes France his life. <> < p=""> Faced with either prison or death, Gage is offered a third choice& ndash; & ndash; to accompany the new Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, as France sails to conquer Egypt, closely followed by Lord Nelson's British fleet. Incredible surprises await Gage once he arrives, in the form of both a beautiful Macedonian slave and in the dawning knowledge that the medallion may answer one of the greatest riddles of history& ndash; & ndash; who built the Great Pyramids, and why& ndash; & ndash; and reveal an answer more shocking and revelatory than anyone could imagine.<>
About the Author
William Dietrich is the author of the novels Hadrian's Wall and Scourge of God, and is a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist, historian, and naturalist. He lives in Washington State.
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