Saturday, November 30, 2013

The Mummy - with a difference. An Egypt novella by the author of The Smiting Texts

New, tender life emerging out of death. 'Green Osiris'
The Curse of the Corn Mummy.

A mysterious Osiris corn mummy is discovered buried in the desert outside a remote Egyptian oasis.

Symbol of the cycle of death, resurrection and renewed vegetation.

Its finder, Gaia, a young historical climatologist, dreams of saving the planet.

But what has she released into the world? Death strikes and fear grows as a violent sandstorm traps the archaeology team and throws a heavy responsibility on her admirer, young American archaeologist Bradley, second in charge of the project.

It grew in darkness in the tomb… and spread terror from Egypt’s magical past.

Friday, November 29, 2013

The Grain God Mummy.... "Godseed Resurrection'

It grew in the darkness of the tomb... terror from Egypt's magical past




Horror and intrigue in an enthralling novella.

A mysterious Osiris mummy impregnated with seeds is discovered buried in the desert outside a remote Egyptian oasis.

Symbol of the cycle of death, resurrection and renewed vegetation.

Its finder, Gaia, a young historical climatologist, dreams of saving the planet.

But what has she released into the world? Death strikes and fear grows as a violent sandstorm traps the archaeology team and throws a heavy responsibility on her admirer, young American archaeologist Bradley, second in charge of the project.

It grew in darkness in the tomb… and spread terror from Egypt’s magical past.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

"Favourite" Egypt fiction... "A furious pace keeps the reader engrossed."

Amazon Kindle

"Roy Lester Pond joins my favourite Ancient Egypt authors like Christian Jacq". The Ra Virus ****stars Goodreads


"THE RA VIRUS" - Goodreads reader review:

"This is a novella set in Ancient Egypt with a twist. Lucas Burrows is an epidemiologist who is is in Modern Day Egypt assisting an archaeological team. Lucas is at the archaeological site along with his girl friend, a well known Egyptologist Giulietta.

While exploring the site, Lucas disappears through a trapdoor and is presumed lost. But Lucas is mysteriously transported to the same site, now in Ancient Egypt is a bit of going through a temporal warp or simply, time travel. If you cannot handle this, go no further and seek other genre of books.

If you are reading this, I presume you can handle a little bit of SciFi and give the author some literary leeway.

One day, a modern day message appears at the dig site apparently from ancient times. The message warns of an ancient pathogen likely to create havoc in modern times as well. There is a possibility that the message was from Lucas trying to warn folks in the modern day.

This novel is all about Lucas's adventure in ancient Egypt. The author maintains a furious pace all through... keeping the reader engrossed. Very readable... Roy Lester Pond joins my list of favorite authors dealing with Ancient Egypt like Christian Jacq."





See Roy Lester Pond's complete Egypt fiction collection on - Amazon Kindle

Sunday, November 10, 2013

THEY INTERCEPTED him as he came out of Baltimore-Washington Airport



THEY INTERCEPTED him as he came out of Baltimore-Washington Airport, two men wearing suits and an air of officialdom like a brisk cologne.
“Mr Anson Hunter, the British Egyptologist?” 

“SORRY, ANSON. Your search for the stela ends here!”



The voice of the woman funnelled down the underground passage, the echoes fluttering off the stone like startled bats.Anson Hunter, alternative Egyptologist and theorist, felt a chill as the words reached his ears. It was caused as much by the emotional separation in her voice as by its distance. Her voice was startlingly removed. It was also hard and cold. A few minutes earlier she had been a companionable presence at his shoulder. Now this. She had deserted him, stealing back up the ramp of the passage. Why?

THE IBIS APOCALYPSE - Amazon Kindle 

Egyptian tour guides will tell you that it’s good luck to walk in a complete circle around the Step Pyramid of Saqqara.





It’s even luckier if you’re able to run, Anson Hunter thought after two bullets in quick succession spat dust from the ground at his feet. The independent Egyptologist felt his skin tingling in shock like the effects of a close lightning strike.

THE GOD DIG Amazon Kindle 

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The archaeologist Anson Hunter plummeted, tumbling uncontrollably into darkness.


Was it a tomb shaft he was plunging down, he thought, feeling the darkness rip past his body?
Yet instead of sliding walls of stone, he flew down a pit of glowing green perspective lines that converged at the point of infinity.
He saw a woman, depicted in graphic green mesh-lines of light, watching him drop.
The strands of her hair were like strings of binary computer code, a rainfall of green ones and zeroes and her Egyptian eyes were bright points of light.
When he hit bottom, a place where the darkness coalesced into crushing density, even his mind went dark,
After an eternity, he opened his eyes.
He was seeing stars.
But they were not stars in a night sky, instead they were leopard skin spots on a tight body gown worn by the ancient Egyptian goddess Seshat, Mistress of Knowledge. The spots transformed into stars and then into electronic green spangles against a darker green sky and in her headband appeared a crowning star with seven brilliant points and a downturned crescent above it.
He was either dead or had entered her realm.
Seshat spoke in a thrilling whisper that made his body quiver. It was the voice of the infinite, yet was as gentle and fluttering in his ears as a breeze



A female mummy from ancient Egypt lay outstretched inside a hospital scanning machine.

The British Museum had brought the mummy to St. Thomas’ Hospital for a non-invasive examination of the body beneath its wrappings.
“We’ll begin by doing the head and neck in two millimetre slices. I’m just relieved that nobody will have to give this patient the bad news that she’s terminal.”
The radiologist had made the joke to bridge the jarring disconnect between ancient death, wrapped up in magical spells, and the modern day machinery of medical imaging. 
The radiation scan - at a dose lethal for the living - blasted through the linen windings. It was like a penetration of sunlight warming the bones after the ache of the desert night.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

THE SMITING TEXTS UK Kindle Countdown Deal - Begin series at next-best thing to free!


UK Kindle Countdown Deal £0.99. Until Nov 15

Enter the world of renegade Egyptologist Anson Hunter - a world of hidden dangers from the ancient past in this popular Egyptian archaeology adventure thriller series.

At Amazon Kindle. The Countdown clock will be ticking down... 

Thursday, November 7, 2013

12 Kindle Egypt thrillers - the most mysterious adventure setting under the sun

12 Egypt novels now also on Kindle

THE SMITING TEXTS 
THE HATHOR HOLOCAUST
THE IBIS APOCALYPSE
THE ANUBIS INTERVENTION
EGYPT EYES
THE FORBIDDEN GLYPHS
THE GOD DIG

THE RA VIRUS
THE MUMMY ISIS
THE DOOR OF THOTH
THE DELTA DILEMMA
HUNTING HATHOR