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"This much can be stated with assurance: this novel will be a huge hit with fans of the series, of Egypt-themed mysteries, of period mysteries, of modern-day thrillers, and--what the heck--anyone not included in those groups."--Booklist (starred review)
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Format:Hardcover
"Egypt: the Book of Chaos" is the third in the trilogy featuring Rahotep, chief detective of the Thebes Medjay, during the 18th Dynasty some 33 centuries ago. Nick Drake, as with the previous two, "Nefertiti" and "Tutankhamun," captures well the spirit, the landscape and atmosphere, and the suspense of the time and place of that historically significant age.
Drake's Rahotep is a fascinating, and fully developed, central character, a "police procedural," as it were, set within the excitement, the political maneuverings, and history-setting situations of the time. Rahotep is also human and suffers the same feelings, successes, and failures of ordinary human beings. His role as a Medjay policeman offers him unique challenges--and dangers. After all, it was a dangerous time. Tutankhamun, the Boy Pharoah, has died (and under mysterious circumstances) and the whole kingdom is teetering on revolution, treason, and great upheaval. His widow, the Queen Ankhesenamun, has employed (and implored) Rahotep's assistance. The intrigue grows from here--and the plot becomes, of course, deadly.
General Horemheb is poised to take over, to implement martial law, and destroy the dynasty. Drake's book is filled with political intrigue (setting up an alliance with archenemy the Hittites to consolidate the queen's power and thus foil Horemheb's plans, among others. (Historians know the real results, of course.)
One doesn't have to be a history buff to appreciate, even to enjoy, this novel (although it helps to know a little about the history of this time). It was with a welcome moment when I found this, the third, book published. Here's to more of Rahotep, Mr. Drake.
Drake's Rahotep is a fascinating, and fully developed, central character, a "police procedural," as it were, set within the excitement, the political maneuverings, and history-setting situations of the time. Rahotep is also human and suffers the same feelings, successes, and failures of ordinary human beings. His role as a Medjay policeman offers him unique challenges--and dangers. After all, it was a dangerous time. Tutankhamun, the Boy Pharoah, has died (and under mysterious circumstances) and the whole kingdom is teetering on revolution, treason, and great upheaval. His widow, the Queen Ankhesenamun, has employed (and implored) Rahotep's assistance. The intrigue grows from here--and the plot becomes, of course, deadly.
General Horemheb is poised to take over, to implement martial law, and destroy the dynasty. Drake's book is filled with political intrigue (setting up an alliance with archenemy the Hittites to consolidate the queen's power and thus foil Horemheb's plans, among others. (Historians know the real results, of course.)
One doesn't have to be a history buff to appreciate, even to enjoy, this novel (although it helps to know a little about the history of this time). It was with a welcome moment when I found this, the third, book published. Here's to more of Rahotep, Mr. Drake.
Format:Hardcover
Nick Drake's third and final(?) novel of the wonderful Rahotep trilogy is the without doubt the best yet. As with his previous books, Drake succeeds beautifully in conjuring the exquisite, multifaceted political, social and personal life of ancient Egypt.
From the very top to absolute bottom of Egypt's social hierarchy, the people of Thebes, Memphis and beyond, are vividly given life by Drake's sumptuous prose. Equally vividly, these people die too, often in excruciating, and almost unbearable and unreadable, ways. Being caught on trains laughing at passages in novels is common enough, but being challenged for audibly gasping while reading a novel is a distinctly disquieting experience.
The elements of the starting plot are summarised by other reviewers, but for me the essential force of this book, so much more so than in `Nefertiti - The Book of the Dead' and `Tutankhamen - The Book of Shadows', was Drake's treatment of Rahotep's disintegrating sense of self as the man confronts the worst of circumstances, and finds himself wanting and his moral anchors vanishing.
This is masterful, and unnerving, story-telling, and I hope that Nick Drake returns with a new novel soon.
From the very top to absolute bottom of Egypt's social hierarchy, the people of Thebes, Memphis and beyond, are vividly given life by Drake's sumptuous prose. Equally vividly, these people die too, often in excruciating, and almost unbearable and unreadable, ways. Being caught on trains laughing at passages in novels is common enough, but being challenged for audibly gasping while reading a novel is a distinctly disquieting experience.
The elements of the starting plot are summarised by other reviewers, but for me the essential force of this book, so much more so than in `Nefertiti - The Book of the Dead' and `Tutankhamen - The Book of Shadows', was Drake's treatment of Rahotep's disintegrating sense of self as the man confronts the worst of circumstances, and finds himself wanting and his moral anchors vanishing.
This is masterful, and unnerving, story-telling, and I hope that Nick Drake returns with a new novel soon.
Format:Hardcover
This the third outing for Rahotep-Seeker of Mysteries and once again we have a mystery that has you enthralled all the way to the end.We open with the massacre of five Nubian boys,runners of low level opium sales for their bigger brothers,but these deaths were different in that the boys heads had been severed by a single powerful stoke perhaps from a ceremonial Khopesh scimitar and had been set out in a neat row at the feet of their corpses,which had been laid side by side,then Rahotep noticed something,just visible between the lips of one of the Nubian boys heads and he inserts his finger between the teeth and retrieves a folded slip of papyrus,which he carefully opens to revel a neatly drawn strange sign,like nothing he had seen before,but Rahotep is not assigned to the case and before he can fellow up on his lead he is summon to attend Queen Ankhesenamum with old friends Nakht and Simut and they are soon sent on a mission that has the future of Egypt's greatest dynasty in their hands.Once again Nick Drake has given us a historical tale of adventure and intrigue that brings ancient Egypt to life with all it's treachery and vengeance that had me captivated and page turning into the early hours.
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