A TOUR GUIDE for Egypt Fiction Readers - adult readers to young-Egypt lovers

Adventure fiction series spanning Egypt's most famous archaeological sites

THE ANSON HUNTER COLLECTION The Egyptian adventure series featuring Anson Hunter, alternative Egyptologist - battling hidden dangers from the ancient past. THE SMITING TEXTS, HATHOR'S HOLOCAUST, THE IBIS APOCALYPSE, THE NIGHT OF THE NILE GODS, THE ARMAGEDDON GLYPHS, THE GOD DIG, EGYPT EYES, ARTEFACT, ORACLE OF SIWA, KHUFU'S CHAMBER OF CHAOS, THE SON OF GOD EGYPT TOMB... PLUS, THE ANSON HUNTER ARCHAEOLOGY ADVENTURE SERIES 1 - 3 EDITION. Next, a mythological mystery series: THE EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY MURDERS A mummy named Isis is taken to a hospital for a non-invasive imaging scan… so begins a mystery and a string of deaths. An ancient cycle unfolds in modern day London - and a search for eternal love. Can Jennefer, a young trainee museum curator and Jon, a police antiquities unit detective, stop the killings in time before a terrible culmination of events?   The EGYPTIAN OBELISK Prophecy What was the Obelisk Prophecy? The exciting fiction sequel to ‘The Egyptian Mythology Murders’. Detectives and Egyptologists are in sister professions. Now the unusual team of Jennefer, an Egyptologist museum curator, and Jon, an arts and antiquities policeman, is back together in ‘The Obelisk Prophecy”. Egyptian obelisks are potent symbols that pierce the skies around the world. London, New York, The Vatican… But now one obelisk represents the clue to a world-threatening mystery. Working against secret enemies the team must race to find and penetrate the riddle of the one obelisk on earth that holds the key to salvation. . THE EGYPTIAN CROCODILE QUEEN When a new blockbuster ancient Egyptian exhibition arrives, mysterious events and a string of killings soon follow. The investigative team of Jennefer, a curator, and Jon a police antiquities detective, must track down the shocking truth in a hidden underworld beneath the city - and discover a shocking secret from ancient Egypt, linked to a modern day conspiracy that takes its impetus from the ancient past. TRILOGY. THE EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY MURDERS: 3 TITLES IN ONE EDITION Ancient Egypt resurrected... Then another series: THE EGYPTOLOGIST DETECTIVE SERIES. Meet Daniel Cane, archaeologist and sometimes cruise Egyptologist, who finds himself digging for murder clues in Egypt instead of for buried artefacts. MURDER ON THE NILE MYSTERY CRUISE, MURDER IN NUBIA, The TOMB HUNT CRUISE MYSTERY, THE EGYPTOLOGIST DETECTIVE Next comes a whole range of stand-alone, Egypt-inspired titles:- THE CLEOPATRA LOST TOMB MURDERS Trapped inside a tomb and someone or something is killing a group one by one A group of hand-picked investigators is driven blindfolded across the desert to a lost tomb belonging to a mysterious owner. Then the tomb is deliberately sealed, trapping them underground. A young female Egyptologist, an historical fantasy writer, a cold-case detective, a documentary film-maker, an historical scholar… Now the darkness turns deadly.   THE GHOST OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM There is a certain statue in the Sculpture Gallery of the British Museum of the son of Rameses The Great, Egypt’s most illustrious pharaoh. The statue has an eerie attraction even today. In the 1900s a London group known as The Society of Inner Light regularly conferred with the exhibit in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, convinced that it was a medium for metaphysical activity and emanated unseen forces. She was an American historical writer visiting the British Museum's Egyptian Sculpture Gallery to research a new book. He was a legendary and enigmatic prince from ancient Egypt who desperately needed to undo a terrible mistake. Was the strange young man’s sudden materialization before Madeline just ‘cosplay’, or the result of an attraction between two souls across time? Would they share a mysterious quest on a journey through Egypt, and much more?   DYNASTY Zero A primordial clash of humans, gods and demon demigods. A young demigod boy Nemes, a future unifier of pharaonic Egypt, also known to history as Narmer, lived on the fault line between deity and humanity. It was a time of the gods and demigods, when the throne of the god Horus shook and the weak hands of men stretched out to catch the crown and seize the scepter of Egypt. The demon demigods did not stand by, but seized the moment to strike. ANCIENT MESSAGES 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?   ‘Ancient VISITORS The Egypt Enigma’ In the field of ancient civilizations, 'visitors' meant one thing to Egyptologist Rebecca Landers. The controversial theory about the enigma of Egypt and its advanced technological achievements. Then came the surprising evidence... and a threat to the world. Suddenly she and her team were called on to span two worlds on a dangerous archaeological quest like no other. Only they had the power to save history and the future. IN THE DEAD OF SPACE Lewis Trader: A young space archaeologist ARCHAELA: His female Archaeology Android Assistant In the dead of space... a deadly pyramid structure. Was it a space mirage? an alien pyramid structure abandoned in dead space? Space archaeologist Lewis Trader and his female archaeological android ARCHAELA make a discovery. A glowing ancient Egyptian-style pyramid floating among the stars. They begin a climb up guarded ramps inside the structure amid rising levels of tension – their progress challenged by mysterious, lethal guardian sphinxes... leading to a startling revelation. EGYPT EXTRACTION TIME JUMP ERA: 3 A.D. MISSION: Save the Jesus child, a refugee in Egypt, journeying with escaped family. THREAT: modern day Time-Terrorists and ancient assassins of Judean King Herod... Time-travel terrorists… drones… attackers with assault weapons racing through the Nile’s papyrus reeds… their target a boy king. At stake, the future of civilization. Standing in their way, two young time jumpers, Salome and Callen of the Anti Time-Terrorist Strike Force. They must stop a catastrophe that could affect billions of lives and the belief systems of the world. Sci-fi, ancient history and time-travel novella with a startling twist and revelation. PLUS THE VIRTUAL EGYPT ARCHAEOGAME A group of specially chosen players experience a futuristic virtual reality game inside a mysterious simulator of ancient Egypt's underworld. Then they start dying, for real.   EGYPT TRAP Keep an eye on a mysteriously obsessed young wife visiting the archaeology sites of Egypt? How hard could that be? A damaged ex-detective is hired to shadow a girl with painted eyes on a trip to Egypt… Is she leading him step by step into a murder conspiracy and the mystery of a lost ancient Egyptian queen? Dan Loader reluctantly accepts the job. A damaged, former-detective from a police Art and Antiques unit, he is already traumatised by an ordeal at the hands of antiquity traffickers. Yet he desperately needs something to help him hold his life together and following the girl looks like a soft surveillance task, more so as he becomes increasingly drawn to her. Rich, independent Kate Barnsdale is a beautiful, haunting young woman surrounded by an unmistakable aura of ancient Egypt. Her obsession with a lost, mythic Queen from Egypt’s 6th Dynasty seems to be taking over her life. When she insists on travelling to Egypt alone to follow her mysterious urgings, her husband hires Dan to shadow her secretly and watch over her. But is Dan being drawn step by step into a murder conspiracy that involves the secret of a mythic queen from Egypt’s ancient past? Crime and suspense with the mystery twist of ancient Egypt.   PHARAOH’S HEIST The Boy King's Gold... a Blockbuster USA Tour... a dazzling display of criminal daring. It was an outrageous plot:- Extract Tutankhamun’s priceless gold on its blockbuster tour of the USA. But who is the enigmatic mastermind behind the disappearing act and why have they done it? Will they demand a pharaoh’s ransom for its return? And what will become of a pair of US hostages, a museum Egyptologist and a female National Geographic feature writer traveling with the treasures? A golden target, the most famous treasures in the world... gone... the fabulous golden artefacts of Tutankhamun, about to appear in the USA in the biggest blockbuster exhibition since the world wide pandemic, have been stolen. ONE DAY I’LL TELL YOU SOMETHING A child obsessed with the ancient past, a young mother who discovers adventure…“ I remember Egypt,” Cooper said gravely. “Long, long ago.” Her little boy was gorgeous, she thought, but his imagined past life could be a bit hard to take. Especially at 8.30 in the morning, when she was busy having a this-life crisis, running late for work and her eight-year old was about to miss his school bus.Then young single-mother Catherine meets a past life researcher and also a mysterious Egyptologist Simon Priestly and she and Cooper are off to Egypt on an extraordinary quest to follow a young boy’s dreams… or are they actual memories of the ancient past? What will they find and what will Catherine find as she warms to the impressive British Egyptologist as they uncover a shattering secret from Egypt’s past? Disturbing and intriguing adventure fiction with a twist of the unknown.   THE SARCOPHAGUS Adventure, mystery, fantasy. An archaeologist with a bow shoots an arrow into adventure... In the modern age, Ryder an archaeologist in Egypt discovers a mysterious empty sarcophagus in a tomb. Then his Egyptologist partner Janet goes missing. He vows to go after her, even if it means journeying across the boundaries of reason and existence. Ahead of Ryder and his Ridgeback dog lies a pre-dynastic realm of myth: the mysterious Mistress of the Bow and Ruler of Arrows, the evil Lord Set, legions of animal-headed creatures, the venerable bird-man, the child Horus. And key to it all is the quest for the magical amulets of power. A life-and-death struggle is on at the edge of time. And the universe watches - and waits. THE EGYPT PATTERN CRIMES Krysten was an intriguing young professional Egyptologist. He was a hard-boiled detective investigating a series of murders in a university town. All the victims were Egyptologists and all the crimes had unmistakable fingerprints of ancient Egypt. So he invites her to act as a consultant and advise him on the mysteries of ancient Egypt and its mythology to help him solve the baffling case. Trouble is, she is also a 'person of interest'. Great interest. Is she even more than that? Plus ‘THE SHADOW SIDE OF EGYPT. A suspenseful mystery with time-slip and supernatural elements. Jed is a time-torn archaeologist in love with both his young archaeologist wife and with an image of the Lady Tetisheri in an Egyptian tomb. Then chaos strikes across time and Jed is launched on a dangerous mission to stop the return of primeval chaos. He must penetrate a nightmarish sanctuary of The Ogdoad, Egypt’s eight gods of chaos and creation, where he will also face the terrible, ultimate dilemma - save his passionate wife in ancient Egypt… or his glamorous, yet independent wife of today… And SHABTI The Soul Slave Mystery (short story) How did a man wake up in a motel room to find his torso covered with tattoos of ancient Egypt’s Book of the Dead?   HUNTING HATHOR Can a bowman hunt Sekhmet-Hathor, Lioness and Love Goddess? A mythic adventure - plus DYNASTY Zero "Great reading," 5-star Amazon "Wonderfully clever and original." Can one bowman hunt down and stop the Egyptian goddess Hathor-Sekhmet, sent by Ra to destroy humankind? Was it the most impossible mission in all of creation? (This story first appeared in the archaeological adventure thriller The Smiting Texts, (as a tale within the novel) but is published here separately for lovers of adventure and mythology, together with another adventure from the mythic age, Dynasty Zero. Mythic Adventure 2 DYNASTY ZERO A young king-to-be must battle Egypt’s demigods to win his throne. THE MUMMY AVENGER Awakened after a thousand years in a tomb sanctuary filled with weapons... The Ancient Avenger arises to fight against a ruthless oppressor. The Hyksos conquerors have seized Egypt at a time of weakness following the Middle Kingdom, overpowering all with their superior technology - chariots, hardened bronze weapons and compound bows. And they are now plundering Egypt for its forbidden secrets of power. Can ancient Egypt’s most mysterious hero stop them and resurrect a divided land before the Hyksos can gain Egypt’s most powerful and dangerous secret of all? EGYPT ENCOUNTER A modern day adventure into ancient truth 'Egypt Encounter' transports readers to a land between two worlds where the past and present collide in an adventure that changes lives. A modern day adventure into Egypt's ancient sites of mystery, mythology and the afterlife. Fiction with photographic images of Egypt. Novella 2 THE ISIS CODE I am AI-SIS," his A.I. generated novel began. ‘AI-sis’ - the Egyptian goddess Isis and Artificial Intelligence put together. And she emerged as the eerily unexpected narrator of a computer generated novel. “No computer will ever create and write a prize-winning novel,” they said. Trouble was, Jed was trying to do just that. He was competing in an AI National Novel Generating Month competition. For novels created by computers. And he was desperate to win the prize and break through from obscurity. With success in a new era of fiction writing, he could fund his young wife’s medical treatment.But the opening of the story that spits out of the advanced fiction writing system he has programmed startles him. It’s amazing - far too coherent for AI to write. Alarmingly, the story told by AI-sis, the computer story’s narrator intertwines like a snake with Jed’s own struggles and his life becomes as surreal, distorted and dreamlike as badly-coded AI text. And time is running out for Jed... and a loved one whose life is in the balance.   Finally, fiction and non-fiction combined in a personal exploration of the well-springs of mystery fiction born of 'old Africa' and ancient Egypt. FATHER AFRICA, MOTHER NILE Africa... and ancient Egypt. What was the connection between Africa and Egypt for a writer of mystery? The Nile runs through it. In a sense, we are all making a search for a metaphorical source of the Nile in Africa. It’s the heart’s hunger for the mysterious. This book is a unique revelation of the source of creative inspiration for writers and lovers of mystery. "Father Africa, Mother Nile: A Fiction Writer's Search for the Source of Mystery" has appeal to a wide range of readers. Fans of historical fiction, mystery, and autobiography genres will all find something to enjoy in this book. Drawing on his own touching experiences growing up in Africa, Roy Lester Pond weaves together an autobiographical narrative with a rich exploration of the mythology and legends that surround ancient Egypt. It takes readers on a fascinating journey through his personal history and the inspiration behind his work, including references to beloved authors Rider Haggard and Mika Waltari. At the heart of the book is his exploration of the role of mystery in his writing. Through his reflections on the themes that have inspired him to pen the largest span of ancient Egypt fiction titles in the world, he offers readers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a mystery adventure writer. "Father Africa, Mother Nile" is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of history, culture, and fiction, and for all those who love mystery.

PLUS YOUNG ANCIENT EGYPT – WRITTEN AS ‘ROY POND” Ages 1o-12 years

Little Cousin Harry is really weird, but he is family, so Josh and Amy decide to play along with him. They join Harry in playing a series of totally spooky ancient Egypt computer games. Trouble is, Harry's games become more and more real and dangers start to leak out of the games into real life and into their lives. The popular Egypt series - now available in one mega book of three adventures.

The award-winning children's adventure fantasy novel (a "Children's Book of The Year", Australian Christian Literature Society.) First published in paperback in UK and Australia. (For ages approx 9+.) 15-year old Phillip is hooked on the past, like his late Uncle William, an Egyptologist, whose copy of "The Book of the Dead" - a passport to the Egyptian afterlife - is buried with him. Is that where he's gone? Into the Egyptian underworld? Can Phillip venture there and rescue him? What role does a mysterious, mummified ibis bird play - a gift from his late uncle? Phillip, his pharaoh hound Dogstar, and his friends Julia and Coomber, go on an enthralling adventure beyond the gateways and guardians of Egypt's underworld.

Two Egypt Fantasy Titles in One. With ancient Egyptian images. 1. The Princess Who Lost Her Scroll of Egypt's Underworld. Egypt's 'Books of the Dead' were magical scrolls, guides to help the soul get through the dangerous gateways and guardians of the underworld and reach heaven. What happens when a young princess, Nefera, finds she has been tricked and has been given a blank scroll insread of a costly book of the dead? And can a young boy tomb robber Ipy and his pet monkey hide their secret from her and help her on her underworld journey? They must race to reach the Fields of the Blessed before dawn or be lost forever. 2. MUSEUM GHOSTS What happens when the museum keeper's daughter secretly takes an Egyptian doll named Tiye from its glass case? Karoy and his companions - a squad of Egyptian wooden soldiers created to protect a tomb owner - arise to rescue Tiye from the dangerous outside world...