Pharaoh's Son
Set fifteen years after Kadesh, this is the second book I wrote in what would become The Memphis Cycle. It was the first book that was actually set in Memphis. I removed it for revisions just before Mourningtide was released in order to revise it and bring it better into line with the rest of the books. I added several chapters and adjusted the story line. Nothing is changed from the events of that account, but the revision. If you read it before and liked it, you may well like it even more.
Something great and terrible is stirring, hidden deep within the temple, something they must bring into the light before those who walk in darkness take it and turn it to evil.
Something great and terrible is stirring, hidden deep within the temple, something they must bring into the light before those who walk in darkness take it and turn it to evil.
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The crash of Pharaoh's colossal statue into a throng of worshipers brings the festival of the good god Ptah of Memphis to a sudden, bloody end. Prince Khaemwaset, the High Priest, barely escapes with his life. He finds clues in the wreckage that show that the disaster was deliberately set. Now he is confronted with questions that grow more alarming with every answer he finds as the great temple of Ptah is rocked by a chilling series of murders.
Increasingly entangled in clues that lead to even more mysteries, convinced that the gods themselves are taking a hand in the disaster, he appeals to Pharaoh for help and is sent a powerful ally in his eldest brother Hori, Egypt's Crown Prince, whose intelligence, courage and cunning are offset by a devastating bluntness.
The brothers fight against time as they try to unravel the mystery, knowing that there is more at stake than treasure, and the forfeit is greater than a man's life:
Something great and terrible is stirring, something hidden deep within the temple, something they must find and bring into the light before those who walk in darkness take it and turn it to evil.
Pharaoh's Son is the fourth in the cycle, set in Memphis in the 22nd year of the reign of Ramesses II. It is a tale of murder, intrigue and hidden treasure that reaches back into Egypt's heresy-shrouded past.
Increasingly entangled in clues that lead to even more mysteries, convinced that the gods themselves are taking a hand in the disaster, he appeals to Pharaoh for help and is sent a powerful ally in his eldest brother Hori, Egypt's Crown Prince, whose intelligence, courage and cunning are offset by a devastating bluntness.
The brothers fight against time as they try to unravel the mystery, knowing that there is more at stake than treasure, and the forfeit is greater than a man's life:
Something great and terrible is stirring, something hidden deep within the temple, something they must find and bring into the light before those who walk in darkness take it and turn it to evil.
Pharaoh's Son is the fourth in the cycle, set in Memphis in the 22nd year of the reign of Ramesses II. It is a tale of murder, intrigue and hidden treasure that reaches back into Egypt's heresy-shrouded past.
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