Elizabeth Peters

Lord of the Silent (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel of Suspense

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The ghosts of an ancient past and the specters of a present-day evil are buried beneath the Egyptian sands . . .

For archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her family, the allure of Egypt remains as powerful as ever, even in 1915, as a World War rages. But nowhere in this exotic land is safeespecially for Amelia's son Ramses and his beautiful new wife Nefret. Treachery and danger pursue the two young lovers across the desert nation, strengthening a bond of passion and devotion that only death can sever. And the grim discovery of a recent corpse in a tomb where it does not belong is pulling Amelia deeper into a storm of intrigue, corruption, kidnapping, and murderand toward dark revelations that threaten to awaken the past . . . and alter the family's destiny.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061800313
• Artikelnr.: 37992097

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.