Thursday, May 31, 2018

THE GOD DIG. A religious mystery thriller

Number 7 in the Anson Hunter series. Available on Amazon Kindle

When a friend and radical theorist is murdered, independent Egyptologist Anson Hunter is torn between wanting to discover the truth and dreading the answers. 

Was his friend right about a conspiracy to suppress an ancient secret and is the explosive evidence hidden somewhere in Egypt? 

Anson faces a convergence of hostile elements - emissaries of the three book-based religions, antiquity thieves, radical Islamists and former government officials as well as New World Order conspirators.

A secret archaeology investigation in Egypt. A suppressed ancient secret that threatens the world’s stability and belief systems.

Monday, May 28, 2018

UPDATE: What should come first - the book or the movie?


As a former ‘MadMen’ Creative Director in advertising, (with a passion for all-things ancient Egypt on the side), I learnt to think visually. 



Before writing, I prepare a concept book storyboard capturing the essence (or sometimes the opening) of a book, using Googled photos - like those above.


Here are just a few - for 'The Smiting Texts', 'The Ibis Apocalypse', ‘The Egyptian Mythology Murders’ and 'Hunting Hathor'

Over the long months of writing, this approach helps to sustain a heightened sense of reality for me - as important for the author in writing as it is to the reader in living the story.

Which means I've almost shot the movie BEFORE I've written the book.

HUNTING HATHOR (this story also appears as a tale within the novel THE SMITING TEXTS)


Now the full Anson Hunter range of 9 novels
The Egyptian 'mythology' trilogy

Sunday, May 27, 2018

"A museum is a dangerous place," a famous Egyptologist said...

The British Museum

‘A MUSEUM is a dangerous place.’

Sir Flinders Petrie, pioneer British Egyptologist, first said those words, but today Anson Hunter was thinking them.

A man had followed him to the British Museum.

Who was he?

Petrie had been thinking about another kind of danger when he’d made his famous remark about the dangers of museums. The founder of modern scientific Egyptology had been alluding to the manner in which the early Cairo museum had dealt with a royal mummy fragment found at Abydos, a single, bandaged arm, covered in jewels, the only remains of First Dynasty king Zer.

The curators took the jewels and tossed the arm way, the earliest royal mummy remains ever to come to light. It was a mummy horror story to eclipse any devised by the most febrile imagination, Anson had always thought, but right at that moment his mind was on the other worry.

Anson went up the steps and between the Ionic-style columns into the building. He passed through a crowded reception hall to arrive in the Great Court beyond.

Above the court, a tessellated glass and steel roof spread out overhead like a vast, glowing net, catching clouds, blue sky and a spirit of illumination, while the round, central building swelled like an ivory tower of learning. He crossed the clean bright space before heading left to the door of the Egyptian section.

Inside the dimmer light of the hall, a group of school children crowded around the Rosetta Stone in its glass display case. Two little black girls peered inside, their heads close together as they examined the stone, their hair braided in cornrows. An African look, he thought. It linked his thoughts to Africa’s greatest river, the Nile, and to Egypt’s irrigated fields that bounded it and made Egypt the breadbasket of the ancient world.

He made for the sculpture gallery.

Egypt, both divinely monumental and naturalistic, surrounded him. Two statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, powerfully formed in dark granodiorite, flanked the entranceway to a hall, granting admittance, and inside, as stone slid by, other familiar sights came into view, a red granite lion with charmingly crossed forepaws, and further on, the statue of the Chief Steward Senenmut tenderly holding the daughter of Queen Hatshepsut, the little princess Neferure, on his lap - the child wrapped within his cloak and her face peeping out - then a soaring, crowned head of Pharaoh Amenhotep in the background. And people everywhere, creating a sound of buzzing like voices in a cathedral at prayer time.

But he barely saw or heard them. He paused at a figure standing on a pedestal near a wall on the right hand side, almost overshadowed by a colossal granite torso of Rameses the Great in the centre of the hall.

Khaemwaset, the priest-prince and magician.

Anson confronted the figure. The sculpture depicted the prince in a pleated kilt, stepping forward while holding a pair of emblematic staves at his sides. The conglomerate stone must have presented a technical challenge to the sculptor as it was shot through with multi-coloured pebbles. It made Khaemwaset look as if galaxies were exploding out of his chest.

A museum label said:

Red breccia standing figure... one of the favourite sons of Rameses II, the legendary Khaemwese…

The label used a variant spelling of the name Khaemwaset.

He looked up at the face. Intelligent, sensitive features, faintly saddened. An air as haunted as the face of the sphinx.

Anson silently interrogated the statue.

Open up, Khaemwaset. As one renegade to another, what do you really know? As a seeker of forbidden power, did you open the sanctuary of Hathor, provoking fiery destruction, plagues and pestilence on your father Rameses and his kingdom? Legend tells that you found the magical Book of Thoth, so why not the disc of Ra, too?
(Excerpt from Hathor's Holocaust)
Amazon Kindle and paperback, 2nd book in the Anson Hunter series

THE RA VIRUS (TEXT MESSAGES FROM ETERNITY) *****5-star Goodreads Egypt Thriller

AMAZON KINDLE



*****5-star Goodreads

“Roy Lester Pond joins my favourite Egypt authors like Christian Jacq.” Goodreads

“A furious pace keeps the reader engrossed.”- Goodreads




Is a vanished archaeology team member trapped in Egypt’s ancient past during an age of terror – and sending warning messages to today?
‘WARNING! ANCIENT GLOBAL THREAT…’ the graffiti message appears in a newly found Egyptian tomb, along with a modern biohazard symbol.
What mysterious plague has hit the population of Egypt in the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his young co-regent, the sun-struck Akhenaten? Why is it seen as a judgement by the angry sun god Ra? An eleventh plague of Egypt?
Lucas, a physician and World Health Organisation expert on pandemics, must find its source and the antidote in time to save the ancient past and the future.
Especially when his lover, Egyptologist Giulietta in the modern age, is exposed to the deadly contagion. Can he warn her in time and save her - and can they ever hope to be reunited?

Earlier edition (goodreads)

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Word-of-Mouth exciting Egypt thrillers, mystery archaeology adventure...




5-star Amazon UK "Love this genre"
"A gem" Goodreads...

The Egyptian Mythology Murders


Paperback and Kindle
















Word-of-Mouth exciting Egypt thrillers, mystery archaeology adventure...
5-star Goodreads
TEXT MESSAGES FROM ETERNITY
"Roy Lester Pond joins my favourite Egypt authors like Christian Jacq."




5-star Amazon
THE SMITING TEXTS

“Such a great book! Very imaginative and factual at the same time… hopefully will reach a far wider readership than the Egyptology Community" – Egypt Then and Now

Paperback and Kindle







83 Million copies. If you loved "SHE", see THE EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY MURDERS

Death and love eternal. Has a different ancient cycle returned?
AMAZON KINDLE AND PAPERBACK

Sunday, May 13, 2018

An Egypt tme travel thriller "THE RA VIRUS: Text Messages From Eternity"

AMAZON KINDLE

Is a vanished archaeology team member trapped in Egypt’s ancient past during an age of terror – and sending warning messages to today?
‘WARNING! ANCIENT GLOBAL THREAT…’ the graffiti message appears in a newly found Egyptian tomb, along with a modern biohazard symbol.
What mysterious plague has hit the population of Egypt in the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his young co-regent, the sun-struck Akhenaten? Why is it seen as a judgement by the angry sun god Ra? An eleventh plague of Egypt?
Lucas, a physician and World Health Organisation expert on pandemics, must find its source and the antidote in time to save the ancient past and the future.
Especially when his lover, Egyptologist Giulietta in the modern age, is exposed to the deadly contagion. Can he warn her in time and save her - and can they ever hope to be reunited?

*****5-star Goodreads

“Roy Lester Pond joins my favourite Egypt authors like Christian Jacq.” Goodreads

“A furious pace keeps the reader engrossed.”- Goodreads




Friday, May 11, 2018

The Princess Who Lost Her Scroll of the Dead....and 'Curses!'

2 Egypt Fantasy Titles in One. AMAZON KINDLE


1. The Princess Who Lost Her Scroll of the Dead
Her priceless Book of the Dead is swapped for a blank one by a greedy royal scribe... How can Nefera find her way through the
dangerous gateways and guardians of the Egyptian underworld without her magical spells - her passport to the world beyond?
And who is the boy tomb robber Ipy, sharing her journey? Is he alive, or dead?

2.
CURSES! The Egyptian Museum Mystery

Karoy and his companions - a squad of Egyptian wooden soldiers created to protect a tomb owner - arise when the Lady Tiy is stolen from the museum. Can they rescue her from the outside world?


Friday, May 4, 2018

A girl wearing an ancient Egyptian bracelet... an interception on a train...

Egypt thriller - Amazon Kindle


HATHOR’S HOLOCAUST. (An Anson Hunter novel)

Can a rogue Egyptologist stop an ancient Egyptian apocalypse of plague and global scorching? An apocalyptic danger has arisen from the ancient past in Egypt today bringing a threat to the Middle East and also to the West - of plague, pestilence, fiery destruction and global scorching. Anson Hunter, controversial, alternative Egyptologist, theorist, blogger and phenomenologist is the hero of this historical adventure novel with a rich mythological vein. Followed by Western Intelligence organizations, shadowed by a mysterious androgyne assassin, he must race to avert a crisis in a quest spanning USA, Britain and Egypt. Who is behind the plan to trigger an apocalypse? Neo-religionists, Torchbearers with a dangerous New Age agenda, Christian dispensationalists who are eager to bring on the 'end times' or radical Islamists with a hatred of the West? In mythology, Ra Egypt's sun god, hurled an execration upon a rebellious humankind and, in a hot rage, despatched the scorching Eye of Ra, a holocaust sun in the form of the goddess Sekhmet, to destroy them. A marauding lioness, her breath spread pestilence and plague and her claws and teeth death as she swept through Egypt in an orgy of killing. Then Ra had second thoughts and halted her apocalypse. But the execration had been uttered and it was always feared that the inherently unstable agent of destruction - the Female Soul With Two Faces - would one day return to finish off what she had started, cleansing the earth.


"Egypt calls to us like a lost part of ourselves...."



Wednesday, May 2, 2018

VIDEO YOUNG-ANCIENT-EGYPT E.FICTION - Adventure Mystery Fiction 2020

'THE MUMMY MONSTER GAME' SERIES 
VIDEO YOUNG-ANCIENT EGYPT
AMAZON KINDLE (also Paperback)


AS WELL AS MY RANGE OF ADULT FICTION TITLES,  (WRITTEN AS ROY LESTER POND), HERE'S A SELECTION OF  ADVENTURE FICTION TITLES (MOSTLY WRITTEN AS ROY POND) WITH APPEAL TO THE YOUNG AND YOUNG ADULTS
(AMAZON KINDLE).



FOR YOUNG READERS:
THE PRINCESS WHO LOST HER SCROLL OF THE DEAD
THE MUMMY MONSTER GAME (SERIES)
TOMB TRAVELLERS

FOR ADULTS/YOUNG ADULTS: 
THE SARCOPHAGUS - An archaeologist with a bow shoots an arrow into adventure
ANCIENT VISITORS The Egypt Enigma (SciFi)
DYNASTY Zero Egypt's mysterious age where a young king-to-be battles demigods
I, THE MUMMY. Ancient Avenger



 See ROY LESTER POND (and ROY POND) on Amazon Kindle
AMAZON KINDLE