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THE HERO CONTAGION… from outer space. A family’s flight across Australia from a contagion of deadly courage. Is courage contagious? It could be deadly for the world... and one famiiy fleeing from an apocalypse. Fear spreads like a disease, but what if heroism swept the population like a contagion that eliminated caution, the basic survival switch in the amygdala of the brain? The contagion began with the arrival of meteorites that flashed down around the globe, spreading clouds of dust and a mysterious agent. Those infected rise up and challenge the law and the system. They run suicide ...

MURDER IN NUBIA The Egyptologist Detective An intriguing new voyage of discovery into murder mystery. The Archaeologist Detective is back. Daniel Cane is called on to play the role of cruise Egyptologist and investigator in a baffling mystery. Mysterious murders and a shocking, secret discovery lead Daniel to an ending nobody could expect. This time the setting is a luxurious cruise across the inland ‘Nubian Sea’ across the Sahara Desert, from Abu Simbel in Nubia to Aswan in Egypt, culminating in a world congress on the mysterious Island Temple of Philae. Who is killing the great ...

Previously published as KA. The Seeking Spirit of Khaemwaset: Guarded secrets, forbidden knowledge by Roy Lester Pond (AUTHOR) There is a certain statue in the Sculpture Gallery of the British Museum of the son of Rameses The Great, Egypt’s most illustrious pharaoh. The statue has an eerie attraction even today. In the 1900s a London group known as The Society of Inner Light regularly conferred with the exhibit in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, convinced that it was a medium for metaphysical activity and emanated unseen forces. She was an American historical writer visiting the British ...

The Boy King's Gold... a Blockbuster USA Tour... a Tour de Force of criminal daring! It was an outrageous plot:- Extract Tutankhamun’s priceless gold on its blockbuster tour of the USA. But who is the enigmatic mastermind behind the disappearing act and why have they done it? Will they demand a pharaoh’s ransom for its return? And what will become of a pair of US hostages, a museum Egyptologist and a female National Geographic feature writer traveling with the treasures? A golden target, the most famous treasures in the world... gone... the fabulous golden artefacts of Tutankhamun, ...

This is like no murder mystery case Daniel Cane, the Egyptologist detective, has ever faced. He must dig into murder clues today and buried under the sands of time. And he only has days to solve a crime triggered 3,500 years ago. A mystery detective investigation across two ages. The age of ancient Egypt and fascinating queen Hatshepsut who seized power as king, backed by her crafty court favourite Senenmut And the modern age when a female writer and historian with an astounding secret is murdered in the temple of Hatshepsut. But what is the secret, and who strangled her into silence? ...

THE DELTA DILEMMA "Choose! Your wife in ancient Egypt, or now?" What if our ‘love’ of the ancient past were personal? Not just a fascination with a mysterious civilization. But a desire for someone. A beautiful young woman painted on a tomb wall that we somehow remember from another lifetime. A lost, ‘Old Flame’ from three-thousand years ago? And could that attraction across the ages tear us apart from our love of someone new today? An archaeologist’s ache for the ancient brings heartbreak and dilemma for his love of today. The Delta Dilemma is a suspenseful, fantasy romance ...

(Alternative history fiction adventure) WINSTON CHURCHILL AMBUSHED A British war train ambushed by Boers, a destiny derailed by love and war. Young War Correspondent Winston Churchill rides on a British armoured steam train. The Boers called it 'The Iron Rhinoceros'... Then comes an explosive Boer ambush. Winston is suddenly on the run from captivity. Until his rescue by a young Boer girl, Annatjie Strydom, who hides him inside a sinkhole on her South African farm. He was destined for greatness, his speeches were meant to stir an empire and mobilise the world against the horrors of Hitler's...

A traveling antiques show at an English castle... A rich young aristocratic heiress reveals a mysterious, haunted heirloom from Egypt’s past... an ancient Egyptian curse visited on her family... tragedy... unexplained deaths... Independent renegade Egyptologist Anson Hunter is called in to help her break a family curse in the strangest archaeological hunt of his life... to find the lost hiding place of a dangerous artefact in Egypt... and rebury it. But unknown forces are against them and death is never far away. And what is meant by a threat picked up Intelligence: ’Death will be sent ...

“As the paddle wheels of the 'Belle Epoque' slowly turn like the pages of a vintage Agatha Christie detective novel, a contemporary ‘mock murder’ mystery game was supposed to commence aboard the luxury Nile cruise boat,. But all is not as it seems...” Death on the Nile gets a modern twist in ‘Murder on the Nile Mystery Cruise.’. It was supposed to be a ‘mock murder mystery’ game aboard an atmospheric cruiser. The luxuriously refurbished paddle wheeler, the Belle Epoque - on a lockdown cruise. But suddenly the group mystery murder game turns deadly serious. Daniel, guest ...

The book that started it all. A renegade Egypt archaeologist, a clash of superpowers - ancient Egypt and modern day America. Execration, or smiting, was the atomic weapon of the ancients. If words could kill… could the power of ancient forces ‘smite’ across time? Meet the ingenious archaeologist adventurer Anson Hunter in the first in an archaeology action thriller series. Anson Hunter's special knowledge as an alternative Egyptologist and theorist is the key to stopping a catastrophe. ANSON HUNTER ARCHAEOLOGY MYSTERY ADVENTURE SERIES (In paperback and Kindle) THE SMITING TEXTS' '...

Ancient Egypt's Mystery... Do you have an 'ache for the ancient'? An Egypt-inspired fiction writer’s personal journey into mystery, mythology and ancient religion. With acknowledgements to fiction writers Rider Haggard, Mika Waltari, and excerpts from the author’s writings.

"This book is an adventurous, hidden gem, a true delight." Goodreads Trapped inside a tomb and the mystery is killing them one by one... THE CLEOPATRA LOST TOMB MURDERS A group of hand-picked investigators is driven blindfolded across the desert to a lost tomb belonging to a mysterious owner. Then the tomb is deliberately sealed, trapping them underground. A young female Egyptologist, an historical fantasy writer, a cold-case detective, a documentary film-maker, an historical scholar… Now the darkness turns deadly.

Daniel Cane, Egyptologist Detective series. Golden murders. A baffling case. A set of golden Egyptian coffins scattered to the winds. A series of connected murders. Like the set of ancient Egyptian golden, nested coffins at the centre of this enthralling murder mystery puzzle. The Nest case is the most tantalizing the Egyptologist detective Daniel has ever faced. Three rare coffins disassembled in the past and scattered to the winds. Then a series of rich, illegal artefact collectors are murdered around the world. Somebody desperately wants to put the nest together again, but why? A NEST OF...

WARNING: “Open this book and you will possess the powers of the earth, sky and the gods themselves...” The Book of Thoth, Egypt’s god of magic, is the most dangerous source of esoteric texts ever written. Anson Hunter, controversial alternative Egyptologist and theorist, is obsessed with locating it before the wrong people get hold of it. The texts bring frightening power but also a terrible backlash. Twice in history the contents have come to light – the first time in the reign of Rameses the Great, linked with the Plagues of Egypt and the suffering of the Hebrews, and in 1939 when...

First in a series. A mummy named Isis is taken to a hospital for a non-invasive imaging scan… so begins a mystery and a string of deaths. An ancient cycle unfolds in modern day London - and a search for eternal love. Can Jennefer, a young trainee museum curator and Jon, a police antiquities unit detective, stop the killings in time before a terrible culmination of events? (Formerly The Isis Mummy) "A gem" - Goodreads Followed by 'The OBELISK Prophecy', 'The Egyptian Crocodile Queen' and 'The Egyptian Murder Wrap Mystery'

NIGHT of ANUBIS God-headed invaders board a boatload of archaeologists with hidden secrets . Fourth story in the Anson Hunter series, this novel crackles with the mystery of mythology - and with high tension. A golden horde of attackers disguised in the masks of ancient Egypt’s gods and goddesses… Divine gatecrashers at a gathering of the world’s top Egyptologists aboard a luxury Nile cruise boat. The invaders set up an ancient-Egyptian style judgement scene… is it a reckoning for all of Egyptology? Who are the mysterious attackers?

"Great reading," 5-star Amazon "Particularly beautiful" "Wonderfully clever and original." A mythic adventure Can a solitary bowman hunt down and stop the Egyptian lioness goddess Hathor-Sekhmet, sent by Ra to destroy humankind? Was it the most impossible mission in all of creation? (This story first appeared in the archaeological adventure thriller The Smiting Texts, (as a tale within the novel) but is published here separately for lovers of adventure and mythology, together with another adventure from the mythic age, Dynasty Zero. Plus Mythic Adventure 2 DYNASTY ZERO, Egypt A primordial ...

Horus, the son of Egyptian god Osiris. Jesus, the Son of God. Is there buried evidence in modern day Egypt that could shake today’s civilization? Proof that the stories of ancient Egypt’s falcon-headed god Horus, son of god Osiris, and Jesus, Son of God, somehow mysteriously intersect - in a lost tomb in Egypt? For Anson Hunter, independent Egyptologist, this was the most significant adventure of all. A race and hunt, involving powerful, clashing forces... unleashed across Egypt’s archaeological landscape

A child obsessed with the ancient past, a young mother who discovers adventure… "I remember Egypt,” Cooper said gravely. “Long, long ago.” Her little boy was gorgeous, she thought, but his imagined past life could be a bit hard to take. Especially at 8.30 in the morning, when she was busy having a this-life crisis, running late for work and her eight-year old was about to miss his school bus.Then young single-mother Catherine meets a past life researcher and also a mysterious Egyptologist Simon Priestly and she and Cooper are off to Egypt on an extraordinary quest to follow a young ...

Adventure, mystery, across the boundaries of time... the Mummy King's Realm. An archaeologist armed with a bow shoots an arrow into adventure... Ryder discovers a mysterious empty sarcophagus in a tomb. Then his Egyptologist partner Janet goes missing.He vows to go after her, even if it means journeying across the boundaries of reason and existence. Ahead of Ryder and his dog lies a pre-dynastic realm of myth: the mysterious Mistress of the Bow and Ruler of Arrows, the evil Lord Set, legions of animal-headed creatures, the venerable bird-man, the child Horus. And key to it all is the quest ...