Book description
A journalist is murdered in Jerusalem's Armenian Cathedral and
Detective Arieh Ben-Roi is spoilt for leads. But one seems out of
place - an apparent link to a decades-old missing persons case in
Egypt. Baffled, Ben-Roi turns for help to his old friend and sparring
partner, Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police.
Although struggling with personal tragedy and immersed in a case of
his own - mysterious well poisonings in the Eastern Desert - Khalifa
agrees to do some digging. What he discovers will change both men's
lives for ever.
As their investigations intertwine, the detectives are drawn ever
deeper into a sinister web of violence, abuse, corporate malpractice
and international terrorism. And at its heart lies a three thousand
year-old mystery that has already taken two lives, and will soon be
claiming more.
Journalist and novelist Paul Sussman read history at Cambridge, where
he was also a Boxing Blue. From an early age his abiding passion was
archaeology and he worked in the field, in particular in Egypt where he
was part of the first team to excavate new ground in the Valley of the
Kings since the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. He brought this
interest and enthusiasm to his first three novels -
The Lost Army of Cambyses
,
The Last Secret of the Temple
and
The Hidden Oasis
- which have now been translated into over 30 languages and have sold
over two million copies, while Paul's journalism appeared across the
media, including in the
Big Issue
,
Independent
,
Guardian, Evening Standard
and on CNN. com. He died suddenly in May 2012, having just finished work
on this, his fourth novel. He was just 45. He is survived by his wife, a
television producer, and their two young sons.
