Lord Of The Silent: Summary and book reviews of Lord Of The Silent by Elizabeth Peters, plus links to an excerpt from Lord Of The Silent and a biography of Elizabeth Peters.
Lord Of The Silent
by Elizabeth Peters
Hardcover: May 2001,
416 pages.
Paperback: Apr 2002,
416 pages.
Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia Peabody --Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters's indomitable archaeologist-sleuth -- once again sets sail for Egypt, where ghosts of an ancient past and specters of a present-day evil hover silently over an inscrutable land.
Lord of the Silent
With son Ramses, his wife, Nefret, and a few unwelcome additions in tow, the elder Peabody-Emersons embark on a dangerous sea voyage to Alexandria, ultimately ending up in Cairo for their annual excavations. But in this autumn of 1915 the exotic, alluring city is not what it used to be. Cairo has been transformed into an armed camp teeming with enemy agents, and shockingly bold tomb robbers are brazenly desecrating the ancient sites.
Amelia's foremost priority is to prevent the War Office from pressing Ramses into service again, on the same sort of job that almost cost him his life the previous year. But in these terrible days of global conflict and relentless skullduggery, no place in Egypt is safe. Even remote Luxor provides no guarantee of safety, especially after Amelia discovers a fresh corpse resting in an ancient tomb.
The grim discovery presages further trouble for the Emersons, as the sinister conundrum pulls them all into a bubbling morass of corruption, intrigue, and international espionage deeper and more fiendish than any they have hitherto encountered. Death follows death, with abduction and an assault on Amelia herself intensifying the chaos of a world at war.
Yet there is an even darker danger in store for the Emersons. Can it be that one of Amelia's oldest and most dangerous adversaries will intervene to alter the family's destiny? Tantalizing clues suggest that this may be so and point toward an archaeological discovery of unparalleled importance -- and the resurrection of a voice that has been silent for millennia.
Denver Post
Playful...remarkable...always engaging.
Washington Post Book World
A complex plot, filled with intrigue and nail-biting suspense, one that takes the readers on a ride that steadily builds to a brilliant climax of long-kept secrets revealed.
Chicago Tribune
Hard to put down.
Chicago Tribune
Hard to put down.
Washington Post Book World
A complex plot, filled with intrigue and nail-biting suspense, one that takes the readers on a ride that steadily builds to a brilliant climax of long-kept secrets revealed.
Library Journal
Filled with her trademark elements of humor and romance, this will charm Peters's many fans. Essential for all public libraries.
Publishers Weekly
[P]lenty of strange doings are afoot in the desert, and readers will find all the delicious trappings of a vintage Peters extravaganza lost tombs, kidnappings, deadly attacks, mummies and sinister villains.
Recent Reader Reviews
Rated of 5
by GC
A step forward in the series as Ramses and Nefret come into their own.
The twenty-fifth volume in this bestselling series, featuring small town reporter Jim Qwilleran and his cats with their uncanny intuition. The inhabitants of Pickax are abuzz with the news that a native of Moose County is retiring from a long Hollywood career to return to her native soil.
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