- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Red Fox (Sep 16 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1862306087
- ISBN-13: 978-1862306080
- Product Dimensions: 13 x 2.2 x 19.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,121,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
This book is set in Egypt in the year 1923. Fifteen-year-old Alec Devlin is on his way to the Valley of the Kings. Accompanied by his faithful valet, Coates, Alec is to spend his summer holidays working on his Uncle Will's archaeological dig. It's not the first time he's spent his summer this way ...but this year things are different. Uncle Will and his young assistant, Tom Hinton, have recently made an amazing discovery - an ancient tomb hidden deep below the earth. But only hours after opening its doors, Uncle Will falls mysteriously ill and Tom seems to have disappeared without trace. Together with Ethan Wade, the young American soldier of fortune who is managing the dig in Uncle Will's absence, and a pretty French woman called Madeleine Duval, Alec sets about unravelling the tomb's mysteries.It features seemingly harmless animals that have turned into rabid killers; long dead mummies are rising from their tombs; the spirit of a powerful High Priest is claiming the bodies of the living as his living hosts; and together Alec and Ethan must confront a terror that has waited three thousand years to be reborn.
About the Author
Philip Caveney was born in 1951 in Prestatyn, North Wales. His father was in the R.A.F, so during his childhood his family moved to a new military base every couple of years. He has had several adult thrillers published in the past, but has now turned his hand successfully to children's books. His Sebastian Darke series has sold in 10 languages and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize. He lives in Manchester with his wife and 14 year old daughter.
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Did not live up to expectation, Jan 3 2010
By Mark Rothenbuhler "Wild Derek Nils" - Published on Amazon.com
I have read the other three young adult novels this author has written - the Sebastian Darke books which were really good. This one was a let down after reading those.
Alec has been given permission to visit his uncle's dig in the Valley of Kings, Egypt. Unfortunately, his uncle is now in a home after having a mental breakdown due to seeing a three thousand year old mummy take the form of a colleague. Along the way, we meet many characters, but none of them jump off the page greatly. Alec isn't so much the protagonist of this, as he is a piece of driftwood along for a wild ride downstream. The writing is good, but I think this could have been 100 fewer and been a better book. I hope that the next volume in this series is better.
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