The Golden One

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Zusammenfassung A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. In these perilous times, archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her extended family must confront shocking dangers. But it is son Ramses who faces the most dire threat, answering a call that will carry him to the fabled seaport of Gaza on a mission as personal as it is perilous -- where death will be the certain consequence of exposure. While far away, Ramses's beautiful wife, Nefret, guards a secret of her own ...

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Peters
• Publisher: Avon Books US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2003
• EAN: 9780380817153
• ISBN: 978-0-380-81715-3
• No. of pages: 490
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 172 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Harper-Collins USA Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION: Romance / Suspense, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION: Romance / Historical / Ancient World