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With the popular
fiction hunger for 'death stories' in the form of death games (The
Hunger Games) vampires (Twilight series), zombies (The Walking Dead) and the
like, and news of the ‘darker’ re-boot of the Mummy movie franchise, I have
to accept this critic’s comment with some gratitude.
Even though my
Egyptology adventure thriller series - now a quartet - offer a very different
take. Mummy schlock it isn't. As an Amazon female reader commented: "I loved the intrigue without horror and it was full of interesting twists and turns. I also really enjoyed the characters and their development."
Of course all these other death stories are relative beginners in the field.
Ancient Egypt owns death, dissolution magical afterlife and supernatural malevolence expressed in curses and execrations.
Let’s get back to the
source.
The Reviewer continues: “Roy
Lester Pond provides a sumptuous feast on which to devour multiple strands of
Egypt's ancient past and potential future.
Initially set out as an
ambiguous investigation by the US Homeland Security into a possible terrorist
threat culminating in the recent murder of controversial Egyptologist, Anson
Hunter's father - the plot is interspersed with a tale of ancient Egypt. An
ancient hunter's fate to recapture the Goddess of devastation and entomb
himself with her in order to save Egypt is particularly beautiful and lifts the
overall book beyond the normal conspiratorial-action-thriller… a wonderfully
clever and original story.” - The Truth
About Books, UK
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