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The Lost Army of Cambyses by Paul Sussman is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. From Publishers Weekly Sussman's accomplished first thriller mixes an ancient legend of an invading Persian army swallowed up by a sandstor

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Author
Paul Sussman
Publisher
Grove Press
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9780593056271
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Adventure, Fiction
Rating
3.72 / 5 (91 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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