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House of two pharaohs / Wilbur Smith with Mark Chadbourn.
Since his appointment as Nomarch of Memphis, by the God-Pharaoh Rameses, Piay has thrown himself into pulling the city back from the brink. The famous white city walls have been rebuilt, the once starving inhabitants fed and every day caravans have arrived from the desert wastes, filled with the many riches looted and hidden by the Hyksos. But when the body of a murdered scribe is found sealed inside the newly constructed city vault - the mark of Anubis, god of death, scrawled next to him in his own blood - panic sweeps the city. Only the wisest man in all Egypt can solve this mystery - Piay's mentor, the great sage Taita. Called from his place at the God-Pharaoh Rameses' side, Taita's arrival in Memphis calms the populace, but it isn't long before the mark of Anubis appears again, and again. Taita and Piay are drawn into a battle of wits against a criminal mastermind turned warlord, his aim - with the demise of the Hyksos - to see the kingdom of the Red Pretender restored and the forces of Rameses crushed. Will everything that Taita has fought for be torn asunder? Or will he and Piay finally reunite the two kingdoms? Only time will tell. And time is running out.
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- ISBN: 9781785124969 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 348 pages : map ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Zaffre, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, 2025.
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| General Note: | "A novel of ancient Egypt"--Dust jacket. |
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| Subject: | Taita (Fictitious character from Smith) > Fiction. Gods, Egyptian > Fiction. Pharaohs > Fiction. Egypt > History > To 332 B.C. > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Novels. |
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- Baker & Taylor
When a scribe is murdered in a sealed vault, Nomarc Piay turns to his mentor-mage, Taita, who must also confront a brilliant adversary plotting to rise as Egyptâs Dark Pharaoh in the tenth novel of the series following The Quest. - Simon and Schuster
The next action-packed novel in Wilbur Smith's new Egyptian series
Global bestselling author of River God and The New Kingdom, Wilbur Smith, returns with the next epic book in his brand-new Ancient Egyptian series.
FROM THE SHADOWY UNDERWORLD A NEW THREAT WILL RISE
Since becoming Nomarc, Piay has thrown himself into pulling the city of Memphis back from the brink. The once starving inhabitants have been fed, a new school for Royal Princes and the sons of aristocrats has been established, and Piay has been recovering the many riches looted by the Hyksos. But when the heavily-guarded vault is found locked with the body of a murdered scribe inside - the mark of Anubis, god of death scrawled in his own blood - panic sweeps the city. Only the wisest man in all Egypt can solve this mystery: Piay's mentor, the great Mage Taita.
To Taita's reckoning the culprit can only be one person: a new enemy known to be the wisest and cleverest in the Lower Kingdom, obsessed with Egypt's history and grandeur. For many years, this person worked to undermine the Hyksos and since then their reputation as a criminal mastermind has spread across the Lower Kingdom in awed whispers.
As Taita works to track down the new and dangerous threat, his enemy has another plan: to draw Taita in and ultimately destroy him so they can become the true guide of Egypt's fortunes - the Dark Pharaoh.
