"A frothy, swashbuckling tale of high adventure....Escapist fiction at its ultimate."
--Seattle Times
"It has a plot as satisfying as an Indiana Jones film and offers enough historical knowledge to render the reader a fascinating raconteur on the topics of ancient Egypt and Napoleon Bonaparte."
--USA Today
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author William Dietrich introduces readers to the globe-trotting American adventurer Ethan Gage in Napoleon's Pyramids--an ingenious, swashbuckling yarn whose action-packed pages nearly turn themselves. The first book in Dietrich's fabulously fun New York Times bestselling series, Napoleon's Pyramids follows the irrepressible Gage--a brother in spirit to George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman--as he travels with Napoleon's expedition across the burning Egyptian desert in an attempt to solve a 6,000 year old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion. Here is superior adventure fiction in the spirit of Jack London, Robert Lewis Stevenson, and H. Rider Haggard, and fans of their acclaimed successors--James Rollins, David Liss, Steve Berry, Kate Mosse--will certainly want to get to know Ethan Gage.
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'Pyramids': A landmark historical adventure -- USA Today
The author of, among other thrillers, Hadrian's Wall (2004) and
The Scourge of God (2005) takes us back to late-eighteenth-century Paris,
where American Ethan Gage comes into possession of an ancient medallion and
then, almost immediately, is implicated in a woman's murder. Later, he
joins Napoleon's expedition into Egypt, where the Great Pyramids could
provide the French dictator with the secrets of world conquest or spell
certain disaster--for Napoleon and t he rest of humanity. Rich in period
detail and ancient mythology, this epic-scale thriller succeeds on the
strength of its small moments: a conversation that illuminates the plot, a
description that captures our imagination. It's of interest, too, to see
Napoleon reimagined as an adventurer, a dreamer, and an intellectual.
Incorporating some of the well-known speculation about the pyramids (the
mathematical significance of the Giza pyramid's design, for example) but
not taking it altogether seriously, the novel is a big, exciting romp that
will keep high-concept thriller fans on the edge of their seats. David
Pitt
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The world changes for Ethan Gage--onetime assistant to the renowned Ben Franklin--on a night in postrevolutionary Paris when he wins a mysterious medallion in a card game. Framed soon after for the murder of a prostitute and facing the grim prospect of either prison or death, the young expatriate American barely escapes France with his life--choosing instead to accompany the new emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, on his gamble to conquer Egypt. With Lord Nelson's fleet following close behind, Gage is entangled with generals, archaeologists, and mystics. And in a land of ancient wonder and mystery, with the help of a beautiful Macedonian slave, he will come to realize that the cursed prize he won at the gaming table may be the key to solving one of history's greatest and most perilous riddles: Who built the Great Pyramids ... and why?
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