Book description
Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams second pulse-pounding
adventure featuring the enigmatic Daniel Knox.
Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams second pulse-pounding
adventure featuring the enigmatic Daniel Knox. On the trail of a Dead
Sea Scroll, Knox stumbles across an ancient temple being surreptitiously
excavated by evangelical Christians outside Alexandria. A chase ends in
tragedy with the death of Alexandria's senior archaeologist, and Knox
the chief suspect. Meanwhile, Knox's partner Gaille Bonnard is
baby-sitting a television crew around the ancient city of Amarna, home
of the multiple mysteries of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Kidnapped by rogue
soldiers, her time fast running out, she sends Knox a message hidden in
a hostage video, pleading with him to come to her rescue. But Knox has
problems of his own, under arrest on suspicion of murder, locked in a
police cell half a country away. And the only way for him to find and
save her is to crack one of the great unsolved mysteries of the ancient
world. The Alexander Cipher
'The action crackles along' Daily Mail
'The Alexander Cipher is a razor-edged thriller that delves deeply into
crumbling tombs and ancient secrets. Explosively paced and tautly told,
the book demands to be read in one sitting.' - James Rollins, New York
Times bestselling author of The Last Oracle. Will Adams worked as a
shop salesman, painter & decorator, warehouse porter and microfiche
technician before joining a Washington DC-based firm of business history
consultants, for whom he wrote a number of corporate histories and
biographies, taking time off between projects to travel to remote places
in search of exotic settings for his stories. He later worked as a
communications consultant for a London agency before resigning and
selling his flat to give himself a shot at fulfilling his lifelong
ambition of becoming a novelist
