ROY LESTER POND EGYPT WRITING CATALOGUE - AMAZON

Roy Lester Pond Roy Lester Pond is a prolific author of ancient Egypt-inspired fiction. His depth of knowledge comes from a lifetime spent studying ancient Egypt and Egyptian archaeology. He has been to Egypt on numerous research trips. Roy is fascinated by the mystery of ancient Egypt and its potency and relevance for today’s world. ‘The Smiting Texts’ was his first archaeological thriller, followed by a series featuring renegade Egyptologist Anson Hunter, as well as other stand-alone adventures. Roy spent much of his life in Africa and now lives in Australia. Roy also writes a blog ‘Ancient Egypt Mystery Fiction & Facts’.   Roy Lester Pond Mystery of Egypt Collection The Egyptian adventure series featuring Anson Hunter, alternative Egyptologist - battling hidden dangers from the ancient past:- THE SMITING TEXTS' (In paperback and Kindle) 'HATHOR'S HOLOCAUST' 'THE IBIS APOCALYPSE' 'THE NIGHT OF ANUBIS' 'THE FORBIDDEN GLYPHS OF THOTH' 'THE GOD DIG' 'EGYPT EYES' 'ARTEFACT' 'ORACLE OF SIWA' 'KHUFU'S CURSE' 'THE SON OF GOD EGYPT TOMB'   THE EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY MURDERS (series) 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. "CASTLE CURSE" A Grand English castle estate. A crumbling mummy in the family’s private museum collection. A mummy called Nephthys, the same name as the Egyptian goddess who wove the cloth mummy wrappings of Osiris, called the ‘Tresses of Nephthys’. A series of graphic murders... Is the terrifying onslaught building to an event that will affect the world? And what is the secret of the eerie, nonverbal young daughter of the Earl? Investigative team of Jennefer, a British Museum Egyptologist Curator, and her partner Jon, an Antiques Unit Detective, have just hours to stop a countdown to catastrophe. TRILOGY. THE EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY MURDERS: 3 TITLES IN ONE EDITION Ancient Egypt resurrected... 3 Egyptian mythology-driven mystery thrillers set in the modern day, but with a twist of the ancient unknown. A unique investigative team of Jennefer, a museum curator, and Jon a London antiquities detective - two very different people who work in 'kindred professions'... The X-Files meets 'The Mummy'... - 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 One Egyptian obelisk is the key to saving civilization. - THE EGYPTIAN CROCODILE QUEEN An Egypt exhibition, a series of mythological murders.   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 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? TIME TORN in EGYPT Time-travel adventure. Nefertiti, Akhenaten, the revenge of RA... 'a fast and furious pace’ “Roy Lester Pond joins my favourite Egypt authors like Christian Jacq.” “A furious pace keeps the reader engrossed.”- Goodreads Who is sending 'text messages from eternity' to the team of archaeologists at an ancient Egyptian tomb dig? Archeologist Giulietta finds an impossible scrawled message turns up in a newly found Egyptian tomb. Who sent it? Is her lover, missing archaeology team member Lucas Burrows, trapped in the ancient past during an age of terror? What mysterious disaster has hit the population of Egypt in the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his young co-regent Akhenaten? Why is it seen as a judgement by the angry sun god Ra? 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, the lustrous Italian-born Egyptologist Giulietta, is exposed to the deadly contagion. An enthralling and thought-provoking novel.   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. - and waits. EGYPT TRAP "A mysterious psychological crime thriller... with echoes of 'Vertigo'." Was she leading a modern day investigator into an ancient Egyptian 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 unmistakeable 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.   THE DELTA DILEMMA Choose! Your Wife in Ancient Egypt, or Now? What if our ‘love’ of the ancient past were personal? Not just a fascination with a mysterious civilization. But a desire for someone. A beautiful young woman painted on a tomb wall that we somehow remember from another lifetime. (A lost, ‘Old Flame’ from three-thousand years ago!) And could that attraction across the ages tear us apart from our love of someone new today? An archaeologist’s ache for the ancient brings heartbreak and dilemma for his love of today. The Delta Dilemma is a suspenseful, fantasy romance adventure novella 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…   THE EGYPT DIMENSION Nextworld Nile A pair of archaeology adventurers arrive empty-handed in a next-world-Nile, with no weapons or magical amulets to protect them from the dangers of demonic Egyptian creatures… No offerings to placate capricious gods and goddesses. No wealth to buy food - or freedom from the corvee conscription enforcing gruelling labour on the poor who must construct endless temples for insatiable gods. Can they survive a Mirror Egypt that is like a twisted reflection? Can they hope to escape ‘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. PHARAOHS AMONG THE STARS Lewis Trader: 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. ARCHAEONAUTS. THE EGYPT JUMP 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 VIRTUAL EGYPT Fugitives in a virtual ancient 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. THE TUTANKHAMUN RAID 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.   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 battles against Egypt’s demigods to win his throne. TOMBWORLD TRAVELLER - Egypt demons, or his own? A young writer and visitor to Egypt's ancient sites and sanctuaries meets his personal demons. Can he survive the 'life, or eternal death' choices of an ancient Egyptian underworld? And who is his mysterious female Egyptian tour guide along the way?   And Young-Ancient Egypt Fiction Favourites (as Roy Pond) Plus Young adult Egypt MYSTERY OF AUSTRALIA TITLES