The Pyramid of Doom - A Novel

Zusatztext “No fan of Indiana Jones! Matthew Reilly or action in general will be able to put it down.” —Northern Territory News “Adventure stories don’t get much more epic than this.” —Daily Mirror (U.K.) Informationen zum Autor Andy McDermott Klappentext "No fan of Indiana Jones! Matthew Reilly or action in general will be able to put it down."-Northern Territory News A BURIED EGYPTIAN TEMPLE. A SECRET KEPT FOR 6!000 YEARS. A RACE FOR LIFE WORTH KILLING FOR. An international TV audience waits breathlessly as archaeologists prepare to break into a long-hidden vault beneath the Great Sphinx. But student Macy Sharif has already made her own shocking discovery: a religious cult raiding the site. Their prize? A map that will lead to something far more astounding: the lost pyramid of Osiris. Framed by corrupt officials! Macy goes on the run! trying to reach the only people who can save her before she is silenced-permanently. American archaeologist Nina Wilde! once a renowned scientific explorer! now all but blacklisted by her colleagues! is trying to rebuild her reputation. But Macy's plea for help will send Nina and ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase on the ultimate treasure hunt. From the streets of Manhattan to a yacht off Monaco to a buried desert site! they'll follow an elusive trail stalked by a killer determined to uncover a six-thousand-year-old secret. And beneath the forbidding desert! they'll enter a forgotten world both wondrous and horrifying! where the ancient God of Death has kept his secrets-until now. "Adventure stories don't get much more epic than this."-Daily Mirror (U.K.) Chapter One New York City Three Days Later Nina Wilde struggled to wakefulness, fighting simultaneously through the smothering sheets and the remnants of a cloying alcoholic fog to look at the bedside clock. It was well after ten am. “Crap,” she mumbled, about to chastise herself for oversleeping . . . before remembering that she had nothing to get up for. She almost pulled the sheets back up in the hope of returning to sleep, but even a brief glimpse of the small and ugly bedroom was enough to make her want to get out of it. Not that the rest of the apartment was much better, but it represented a least-worst option. She put on a tank top and a pair of sweatpants, ran her fingers through her unkempt hair, then padded into the other room. “Eddie?” she called, yawning. “You here?” No reply. Her husband was out, though he had left a note on the small counter separating the kitchen area from the rest of the cramped living room. As usual, it was as terse as a military communiqué. Gone to work. Will call later. Probably out until late. Love Eddie x. PS We need more milk. “Great,” she sighed, picking up the small pile of mail beside the note. Credit card bill, probably large. Other credit card bill, almost certainly even larger. Junk, junk— The last envelope had the name of a university printed in one corner. Despite herself, she felt a flutter of hope, and hurriedly tore it open. Maybe this one was the way out of their miserable life of the past several months . . . It wasn’t. She only needed to see the words We regret to know it was another rejection. The academic world had turned its back on her. Once someone was labeled a crank, it was a tag that was almost impossible to remove—even if that person had been right all along. Nina put down the letter, then slumped on the creaking couch and sighed again. A smear campaign by a powerful enemy had not only cost her her job, but also left her regarded as a nut, on the same level as those who claimed to have found Noah’s Ark or El Dorado or Bigfoot. Her previous world-shaking finds—Atlantis, the tombs of Hercules and King Arthur—suddenly counted for nothing, academia as prone as any other field to having only a short-...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Andy McDermott
• Verlag: Bantam Books USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.09.2010
• EAN: 9780553593631
• ISBN: 978-0-553-59363-1
• Seiten: 496
• Abmessung: 107 mm x 170 mm x 28 mm
• Serien: Nina Wilde & Eddie Chase; Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur