Book description
Egypt, 1922: the Valley of the Kings. After years of fruitless labour,
the archaeologist Howard Carter discovers a mysterious tomb, sealed and
marked with a terrible curse. But what is the nature of the tomb's
deadly secret? And what is the web of strange connections spreading back
through millennia, to the very heart of Egypt's fabulous past? In a
glorious Arabian Nightmare of lost cities, treacherous priests and
daring archaeologists, an ancient civilisation shimmers into life;
colourful, magical, and unutterably strange. 'True adventure stories are
all too scarce nowadays. And adventure stories that have the capacity to
make the reader think and wonder are an even rarer commodity. Tom
Holland's latest novel manages both with tremendous verve… a galloping
page-turner' DAILY TELEGRAPH Historian Tom Holland has adapted Homer,
Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for BBC Radio. RUBICON was shortlisted
for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for
History 2004, and PERSIAN FIRE won the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman
Award 2006.
