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Published Apr 2008
352 pages
Genre: Thrillers
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Surviving murderous thieves, a nerve-racking sea voyage, and the deadly sands of Egypt with Napoleon's army, American adventurer Ethan Gage solved a five-thousand-year-old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion. But the danger is only beginning. . . .
Gage finds himself hurled into the Holy Land in dogged pursuit of an ancient Egyptian scroll imbued with magic, even as Bonaparte launches his 1799 invasion of Israel, which will climax at the epic siege of Acre. Pursuing Napoleon to France, where the general hopes ancient secrets will catapult him to power, the wily and inventive Gage faces old enemies with unlikely new friends, and must use wit, humor, derring-do, and an archaeological key to prevent dark powers from seizing control of the world.
"Ethan Gage undergoes further life-threatening adventures in this rollicking sequel...The ending promises more volumes in what one hopes will be a long series." - Publishers Weekly.
"Offering high adventure and good history, it's also great fun." - Library Journal.
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William Dietrich grew up near Puget Sound in the shadow of Mount Rainier.The
influence of dramatic landscapes on people permeates not only his non-fiction but
his novels, which are set in various places around the globe including Antarctica, the Australian Outback, Tibet, and the Caribbean.
The
Pulitzer-winning journalist’s non-fiction has been widely used in university
classes and his fiction has been sold into twenty-eight languages.
Dietrich was born on Sept. 29, 1951 in Tacoma, WA, graduated from Mount Tahoma
High School, and attended Fairhaven College,
an experimental liberal arts division of Western Washington University. Interest
in writing led him to journalism at Western, and his first job was covering
agricultural Skagit County for the Bellingham, WA, ...
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