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Napoleon's Pyramids
by William Dietrich
ISBN: 0060848324
ISBN 13: 9780060848323
HarperCollins
$24.95 Hardcover
February 2007
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What's It About? |
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What mystical secrets lie beneath the Great Pyramids? Traveling with Napoleon's ambitious expedition through Egypt, American adventurer Ethan Gage solves a 5,000-year-old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion.
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Who's Talking About It? |
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“A master at blending accurate historical fact with fictitious love and war storytelling.... For readers who find history books dull and dry, Dietrich has the antidote.”--Seattle Times
“A magnificent adventure shot through with mystery.... a marvelous tale!”--Bernard Cornwell, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Kingdom
“Page-turning historical fiction seething with action, adventure, and passion.”--Booklist
“As in previous novels like Hadrian's Wall and Scourge of God, Dietrich combines a likable hero surrounded by a cast of fascinating historical characters. Riveting battle scenes, scantily clad women, mathematical puzzles, mysteries of the pharaohs, reckless heroism, hairsbreadth escapes and undaunted courage add up to unbeatable adventure rivaling the exploits of George Macdonald Fraser's Harry Flashman. Readers will cheer as the indomitable Gage floats off in a runaway hot-air balloon, hard on the trail of his next exotic undertaking.”--Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Why Did He Write It? |
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When discussing if “intelligent and popular” equate an oxymoron in the literary world, the author responded, “Not at all! This is snobbery put forth by a minority of critics and literature professors who claim the interior mind is the only thing worth writing about and that pretension, obscurity and dullness is somehow a mark of seriousness, instead of a mask. Dickens was the Stephen King of his day. Melville wrote the 19th Century equivalent of Jaws. Tolstoy wrote really good melodrama. Twain got em' laughing, then thinking. Yes, there are differences in quality but the greats first became great by becoming popular. Some had to wait until they were dead. But a good book is a good book if it reaches you.”--from the author's Web site
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