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082			_a813.6 _bSUS
100			_aSussman, Paul
245			_aLost army of Cambyses
260			_bBantam Books, _c2008 _aLondon :
300			_a588 p. ; _c18 cm
365			_b450.00 _cINR _d00
520			_aIn 523 BC, the Persian pharaoh Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt's western desert to destroy the oracle at Siwa. Legend has it that somewhere in the middle of the Great Dune Sea his army was overwhelmed by a sandstorm and lost forever. Two and a half millennia later a mutilated corpse is washed up on the banks of the Nile at Luxor, an antique dealer is savagely murdered in Cairo, and a British archaeologist is found dead at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara. The incidents appear unconnected, but Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police is suspicious, as is the archaeologist's daughter, Tara Mullray. Lured into a labyrinth of intrigue, violence, and betrayal by a mysterious hieroglyphic fragment and rumors of a mythic lost tomb, what began as a search for the truth becomes a race for survival. Confronted by both present day adversaries and ghosts from their pasts, Khalifa and Mullray find themselves on a trail that leads into the desert's unforgiving, burning heart, and the answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world.
650			_aEgypt
650			_aSocial life and customs
650			_a20th century
650			_aAntiquities
650			_aManners and customs
650			_aFiction
650			_aArchaeology
650			_a Adventure thriller
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