In 523 BC, the Persian pharaoh Cambyses dispatched 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 was 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 antique 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 suspicious, as is the archaeologist s daughter, Tara Mullray. Lured into a labyrinth of intrigue, violence, and betrayal by a mysterious hieroglyphic fragment and rumors of a mythic lost tomb, what began as a search for the truth becomes a race for survival. Confronted by both present day adversaries and ghosts from their pasts, Khalifa and Mullray find themselves on a trail that leads into the desert s unforgiving, burning heart, and the answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world."

Adrenaline-packed . . . combines all the elements of a truly great adventure story . . . At the end you feel like you've been on a roller coaster, in a library, and down the Nile all at the same time. . . . Superbly evocative, with a huge epic sweep. --Crime Time

A plot as complex as a hall of mirrors, and almost as gripping as a death threat. --Kirkus Reviews

A tremendous adventure . . . a great novel masterfully written. --Valerio Massimo Manfredi, author of Alexander: Child of a Dream

Gripping...a spine-chilling, fast paced thriller...The Lost Army of Cambyses shocks as well as enthralls. -Sunday Business Post (Ireland)

At last, a thriller that gets away from the hackneyed old 'curse of Tut' stuff...the fast-paced plot is one among many good things in this very assured novel. -Scotland on Sunday