Paul Sussman

"When the body of an aged hotel owner is discovered amidst the ruins of a rarely-visited archaeological site by the Nile, Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police expects it to be an open-and-shut case. But the more he finds out about the dead man, the uneasier he becomes. It reminds him of an earlier death - the brutal murder of an Israeli woman for which he always suspected they'd convicted the wrong man. What begins as a routine investigation rapidly turns out to be anything but... orced into an uneasy alliance with a hard-drinking Jerusalem detective and a campaigning Palestinian journalist, Khalifa enters a murky, murderous world of greed, duplicity, intrigue and revenge as he goes in search of an elusive 2000 year-old mystery with the power, if it fell into the wrong hands, to plunge the Middle East into all-out war... panning the millennia from ancient Jerusalem and the Crusades to the Holocaust and the modern-day no-man's landof the Gaza strip, from Cathar heretics to coded medieval manuscripts and long-lost Nazi treasure The Last Secret of the Temple is a thrilling, rollercoaster adventure.

The Last Secret of the Temple

A mutilated corpse is washed up on the banks of the Nile at Luxor, an antiques dealer is savagely murdered in Cairo, and an eminent British archaeologist is found dead at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara. At first, the incidents appear unconnected. But Inspector Yusuf Khalifa is suspicious, so too is the archaeologist's daughter, Tara Mullray.

The Lost Army of Cambyses

âe~My name is Raphael Ignatius Phoenix and I am a hundred years old âe" or will be in ten daysâe(tm) time, in the early hours of January 1st, 2000, when I kill myselfâe¦âe(tm) Raphael Ignatius Phoenix has had enough. Born at the beginning of the 20th century, he is determined to take his own life as the old millennium ends and the new one begins. But before he ends it all, he wants to get his affairs in order and put the record straight. That includes making sense of his own long life âe" a life that spanned the century. He decides to write it all down and, eschewing the more usual method of pen and paper, begins to record his story on the walls of the isolated castle that is his final home. Beginning with a fateful first adventure with Emily, the childhood friend who would become his constant companion, Raphael remembers the multitude of experiences, the myriad encounters and, of course, the ten murders he committed along the way . . . And so begins one manâe(tm)s wholly unorthodox account of the twentieth century âe" or certainly his own riotous, often outrageous, somewhat unreliable and undoubtedly singular interpretation of it.

The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix

Life has moved on for Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police and Jerusalem detective Arieh Ben-Roe. About to become a father for the first time, Ben-Roi finds himself investigating a gruesome murder in Jerusalem's Armenian Cathedral. The victim, a journalist, had been researching an article into the Israeli sex-trafficking industry.

رواية

متاهة أوزيريس

Zīnah Jābir Idrīs

Ahar asrar al-haikal

جيش قمبيز المفقود

Detective Arieh-Ben Roi of the Jerusalem police investigates the murder of a well-known Israeli journalist and discovers a connection to the mysterious death of a 1930s Egyptologist, who had claimed to have uncovered a labyrinth of unfathomable treasures.

The Labyrinth of Osiris

2008, the Grand Sand Sea, Egypt. A dessicated corpse in found in the dunes. With it are a compass, a camera and a notebook full of undecipherable jottings and figures. So begins the search for the answer to one of archaeology's great mysteries - the legendary lost oasis of Zerzura, and the terrifying secret at its heart.

The Hidden Oasis

Howard Jacobson

Gordon Griffin

Making of Henry

With the help of her sister's friend, Flin Brodie, Freya Hannen sets out in search of the legendary lost oasis of Zerzura in Egypt, which supposedly houses a mythic stone, and could help Freya find out the truth behind her sister Alex's mysterious death.

El oasis secreto / The Hidden Oasis

SINOPSIS Pada 523 SM, Kaisar Cambyses, penguasa Persia yang menaklukkan banyak negeri, mengirim pasukan melintasi Gurun Barat, Mesir, untuk menghancurkan peramalan di Oasis Siwa. Pasukan tersebut tak pernah tiba di sana. Konon, 50.000 tentara lengkap dengan peralatan perangnya itu diterjang badai pasir dan lenyap tak ketahuan jejaknya. Dua setengah milenium kemudian, serangkaian pembunuhan misterius terjadi di Mesir: seonggok mayat termutilasi di tepian Sungai Nil di Luxor; seorang pedagang barang antik dibunuh secara biadab di dalam tokonya di Kairo; dan seorang arkeolog Inggris tewas di lokasi penggalian kuno di Saqqara. Kejadian tersebut tampak tak berkaitan satu sama lain. Tetapi, Inspektur Yusuf Khalifa dari kepolisian Luxor memendam curiga. Begitu juga putri sang arkeolog, ahli zoologi di Inggris. Mereka lalu melakukan penyelidikan guna mengungkap misteri di balik peristiwa tersebut. Setelah menemukan kepingan hieroglif yang aneh, mereka pun mendapati petunjuk penting. Akankah kejadian-kejadian misterius itu terungkap? Menelusuri lorong gelap misteri padang pasir, diperkaya dengan pengetahuan arkeologis yang eksotis, dan diramu dengan plot maju-mundur yang bertarik ulur, novel thriller ini menyeret kita ke dalam petualangan misteri Mesir kuno yang mencekam, mendebarkan, dan memacu adrenalin; sebuah cerita memukau yang sinematis. ENDORSEMENT “Petualangan yang dahsyat. Novel bagus yang ditulis dengan penuh kemampuan.” —Valerio Massimo Manfredi “Serumit lorong-lorong kaca, semencekam ancaman kematian.” —Kirkus Review “Memacu adrenalin. ... Anda merasa seolah sedang menaiki rollercoaster, berada di dalam perpustakaan dan di saat bersamaan tenggelam ke dalam Sungai Nil.” —Crime Time “Sebuah thriller yang keras, terkadang brutal, namun selalu mengasyikkan. Sussman sangat mengenal Mesir, di masa lalu dan masa kini.” —Dr. Barbara Mertz, arkeolog “Novel ini kian menambah genre misteri Mesir kuno. … Karena Sussman pernah melakukan penggalian di Mesir, kita memercayai detail latar ceritanya.” —Publishers Weekly

Teka-teki Sejarah, Harta Karun Kuno, dan Berbagai Pembunuhan Misterius di Masa Kini

Misteri Pasukan Cambyses

From the international-bestselling author comes a “taut, entertaining archaeological murder-mystery-meets-spy-thriller” (Kirkus Reviews). When journalist Rivka Kleinberg is brutally murdered in a Jerusalem cathedral, it’s a complicated case for detective Arieh Ben-Roi. Kleinberg had racked up a wide array of enemies exposing corruption in the halls of power—from international corporations and the Russian mob to the Israeli government. Learning that Kleinberg was working on a story involving Egypt, Ben-Roi enlists the help of his old friend Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police. Together they discover something far more sinister than a single murder. Kleinberg was chasing a mystery spanning centuries—a timeless search for an incredible treasure that has cost countless people their lives, and a modern-day conspiracy that now threatens to add Ben-Roi and Khalifa to the tally of the dead. From a highly respected archaeologist and international-bestselling author comes “a well-researched tale combining an archaeological puzzler with contemporary Middle Eastern concerns” (Financial Times). “An absolutely top-notch thriller.” —Daily Mail

This gripping, captivating and wonderfully evocative archeological thriller by bestselling author Paul Sussman is a must read for fans of Clive Cussler and Wilbur Smith. "A tremendous adventure, one of the most intriguing mysteries of the past, a great novel masterfully written" - VALERIO MASSIMO MANFREDI "One of the best writers of international suspense in the business" - STEVE BERRY "Stylish writing and deep research" - GUARDIAN "An excellent book full of twists and turns." -- ***** Reader review "Enthralling" -- ***** Reader review "WOW what a brilliant book and enjoyed every bit of it. No hesitation in giving it 5 stars." -- ***** Reader review *********************************************************************************** MURDER, INTRIGUE, VIOLENCE, BETRAYAL AND A RACE TO SOLVE ONE OF THE GREATEST MYSTERIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD... 523 BC: the Persian pharaoh Cambyses dispatches an army across Egypt's western desert to destroy the oracle at Siwa. Legend has it that somewhere in the middle of the Great Dune Sea his army is overwhelmed by a sandstorm and lost forever. Two and a half millennia later, a mutilated corpse is washed up on the banks of the Nile at Luxor, an antiques dealer is savagely murdered in Cairo, and a British archaeologist is found dead at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara. The incidents appear unconnected, but Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police is not so sure... And so he begins an investigation that will lead him into the forbidding, barren heart of the western desert, and the answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world...

a heart-pounding and adrenalin – fuelled adventure thriller set in Egypt

The Lost Army Of Cambyses

An adrenaline-packed thriller and archaeological adventure by Paul Sussman, an outstanding new storyteller In 523 BC, the Persian emperor Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt's western desert to destroy the oracle of Amun at Siwa. Legend has it that somewhere in the middle of the Great Sand Sea, his army was overwhelmed by a sandstorm and destroyed. Fifty thousand men were lost. A mutilated corpse washes up on the banks of the Nile. An antiques dealer is murdered. An eminent British archaeologist is found dead at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara. At first, the incidents appear unconnected. Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police is suspicious, however. And so too is the archaeologist's daughter, Tara Mullray. As each seeks to uncover the truth, they find themselves thrown together in a desperate race for survival—one that forces them to confront not only present-day adversaries but also ghosts from their own pasts. From a mysterious fragment of ancient hieroglyphic text to rumors of a fabulous lost tomb in the Theban Hills, from the shimmering waters of the Nile to the dusty back streets of Cairo, Khalifa and Mullray are drawn ever deeper into a labyrinth of violence, intrigue, and betrayal. It is a path that will eventually lead them into the forbidding, barren heart of the western desert, and the answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world. At once an adrenaline-packed thriller and a wonderfully evocative archaeological adventure, The Lost Army of Cambyses marks the debut of an outstanding new storyteller.

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Il labirinto di Osiride

Un appassionante romanzo archeologico che unisce avventura, storia e azione e coinvolge il lettore nella scoperta di un incredibile segreto che affonda le sue radici negli angoli più oscuri dell'antico Egitto.

L'oasi perduta

Le labyrinthe d'Osiris

Georgië, 1988. Bij een pas ontmantelde kerncentrale stijgt een vliegtuig op, met Soedan als eindbestemming. Maar onderweg verschuift de lading. Het vliegtuig raakt uit koers en verdwijnt ergens boven Egypte. Twintig jaar later stuit een groep bedoeïenen in de Sahara op het uitgedroogde lijk van de piloot. Bij het lichaam vinden ze een kompas, een fototoestel en een notitieboekje, volgekrabbeld met onleesbare aantekeningen. Niet veel later landt dr. Freya Hannan op het vliegveld van Luxor. Ze is gekomen voor de begrafenis van haar zus Alex, die de afgelopen vijftien jaren door het Midden-Oosten heeft gezworven. Voor Freya is dit het begin van een zoektocht naar de waarheid achter de dood van haar zus en een van de grootste archeologische raadsels uit de geschiedenis: de geheime oase van Zerzure en het levensgevaarlijke geheim dat er verborgen ligt.

Geheime oase

Un homme disparaît en Egypte sans laisser de traces. Une femme se fait étrangler à Jérusalem. Deux événements que quatre-vingts ans séparent, mais liés par une même énigme. Alors qu'elle préparait un article sur le trafic sexuel en Israël, Rivka Kleinberg est assassinée dans la cathédrale arménienne de Jérusalem. Célèbre journaliste d'investigation dont les enquêtes n'épargnaient ni le pouvoir officiel ni la pègre, elle comptait de nombreux ennemis. Confronté à une profusion de pistes, l'inspecteur Arieh Ben-Roï est particulièrement intrigué par l'une d'entre elles. Loin d'être la plus évidente, elle établit un rapprochement entre ce meurtre et la disparition d'un ingénieur anglais en Egypte dans les années 1930. Afin d'en apprendre davantage, il contacte son ami de toujours, l'inspecteur Youssouf Khalifa, de la police de Louqsor. Ensemble, ils se retrouvent happés par un mystère de plus de trois millénaires qui a déjà coûté deux vies, et ne va pas tarder à en réclamer d'autres... Ancré dans le Moyen-Orient d'aujourd'hui, ce thriller archéologique haletant mêle avec talent histoire, suspense et aventures.

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