Synopses & Reviews
What mystical secrets lie beneath the Great Pyramids?
The world changes for Ethan Gage one-time assistant to the renowned Ben Franklin on a night in post-revolutionary Paris, when he wins a mysterious medallion in a card game. Framed soon after for the murder of a prostitute and facing the grim prospect of either prison or death, the young expatriate American barely escapes France with his life choosing instead to accompany the new emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, on his glorious mission to conquer Egypt. With Lord Nelson's fleet following close behind, Gage sets out on the adventure of a lifetime. And in a land of ancient wonder and mystery, with the help of a beautiful Macedonian slave, he will come to realize that the unusual prize he won at the gaming table may be the key to solving one of history's greatest and most perilous riddles: who built the Great Pyramids...and why?
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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
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"Napoleon's Pyramids is escapist fiction at its ultimate, something to read while you're stuck in traffic or maybe while you're waiting in line for your turn in a stone sarcophagus." Seattle Times
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"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....History aside, it's the lovable Gage who makes Napoleon's Pyramids a winner." USA Today
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"With the recent wave of stories centered on cryptic codes, ancient icons and sacred books thought to be forever lost, Napoleon's Pyramids leaps to the top of the heap with its highly intellectual approach....[H]ard to put down and impossible to read the last 50 pages with dry palms." BookReporter.com
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An 18th-century explorer travels to Egypt as part of Napoleon's great expedition and stumbles into a deadly 6,000-year-old mystery, in this surprise hit by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Scourge of God and Hadrian's Wall.
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“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.
About the Author
William Dietrich is the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including the upcoming Blood of the Reich and the Ethan Gage adventures, The Dakota Cipher, The Rosetta Key, and Napoleon's Pyramid. He is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian, and naturalist. A winner of the PNBA Award and Washington Governor Writer's Award, he is a professor of journalism at Western Washington University.