[bksvol-discuss] Book submitted: Sphinx
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:01:47 -0500
Book submitted to replace the "fair" copy in the collection with a
"excellent" one.
Sphinx
By Robin Cook.
Under the .rtf section of the website. Was read through, and all junk
removed. I didn't do a spell check but suspect there won't be much to
change.
355 pages.
From the Book Jacket:
Six months on the New York Times bestseller list, 4,300,000 sold in
hardcover and paperback-Coma made all America conscious of Robin Cook. Now
this master of suspense has written a spectacular new thriller set among the
fabled Egyptian pyramids and in the Valley of the Kings.
The treasures of Tutankhamen have enthralled the world for half a century.
In Robin Cook's Sphinx, even this fabulous hoard pales to
insignificance when a young Harvard Egyptologist stumbles across a
dazzling new find, the unplundered tomb of a pharaoh who ruled after Tut.
Mesmerized by a centuries-old statue in a Cairo antique shop, Erica Baron
believes she has found the key to the untapped treasure. But how is she to
decipher the riddle of the ancient relic without making its value known-and
hence falling prey-to those who traffic in the treasures of antiquity? She
must use the expertise of those who stand to make the most from plundering
the past:
-Yvon Julien de Margeau: Urbane and aristocratic, he is dedicated to wiping
out the black market ... or so he says.
-Ahmed Khazzan: The director of the Egyptian National Antiquities Service,
he is
in a position to impede the illegal commerce-or to contribute to it.
-Stepanne Markoulis: A trafficker in stolen property and, even to Erica, an
obvious thug. Yet she must use him-and before he uses her.
-Richard Harvey: Erica's fiancé, whose desire to dominate her thwarts her at
every turn-and nearly costs them their lives.
Caught in the web of intrigue, corruption, and murder that soon envelopes
her, Erica races to unlock the mysterious Curse of the Pharaohs that has
kept the tomb intact over the centuries. Only a trick of translation and the
sudden illumination which it brings her saves Erica ... in the midst of as
terrifying a denouement as was ever crafted in a contemporary thriller.
As ingeniously plotted and compellingly readable as Coma, Sphinx brings
vividly to life the splendid setting in Egypt's Valley of the Kings and sets
off a fascinating, spine- chilling interplay between an ancient world of
vast wealth and a modern world that both robs and reveres it.
Robin Cook, a surgeon, lives in Boston where he teaches ophthalmology at the
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Sphinx is the outgrowth of his lifelong
interest in Egyptology.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
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