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T. S. Learner (Author)

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Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: Sphere; Reprint edition (4 Jan 2010)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0751543470
ISBN-13: 978-0751543476
Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 4 x 19.7 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,644 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Sphinx is an unusual joy among recent apocalyptic thrillers for its convincing characters and well-crafted prose. Learner is that rare beast: a wordsmith who can spin a yarn (The Times )

An enjoyable fast-paced thriller (Sun )

Daringly new and resolutely no-nonsense (Telegraph )

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A compulsively gripping debut and one of Sphere's most exciting thriller launches in 2010.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fairly Whizzes You Along, 1 Mar 2010

M. J. Saxton (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This is great if you're up for adventure stories. It reminded me of the Dennis Wheatley adventures I used to read when I was younger.

It's a supernatural thriller - or is it? The reader is never quite sure until the last hundred pages of the book. Learner cleverly weaves the possibility of Egyptian mysticism through the story to keep you guessing.

There is a goodly pace to this novel, keeping the events boiling along. The various settings of the oil industry, 70s Israeli/Egyptian politics and ancient mysticism provide colourful and interesting backdrops to the action.

There are some excellent characters here: Oliver is a satisfying hero/sceptic. Hermes is a great invention. As for the astrarium, around which the story revolves, it develops a character of its own and is a brilliant device.

Learner fills out the character background with family detail, but does not go into great psychological depth, and this is right for this sort of novel. You want to be able to identify characters and traits, but it would be wearying to do so at too detailed a level.

It is a whizz you along, keep the pages turning adventure to appeal to a fairly wide variety of readers.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps it should have remained a secret, 1 July 2011

Keen Reader "lhendry4" (Auckland, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

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Oh, dear. So promising, and yet so disappointing. This could have been a great book - a great premise, great setting, great time to be writing about political events in Egypt and the Middle East and its interactions with America and Europe. Add in pharaohs, ancient Egyptian artefacts, mysterious Egyptian agents, and some supernatural elements, and it should be a great story.

But it just wasn't. I couldn't connect with the characters. The action was disjointed, the characters were badly drawn? Or just shallow? I'm not sure. But whatever it was, I just gave up caring about the `hero' and his quest for validation of his wife's obsessions.

Think this one will be going to the charity shop.

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4.0 out of 5 stars sphinx, 22 Feb 2010

Mr. Karl Blau (london, England) - See all my reviews
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This is a superior thriller set in the Middle East. The story is told in the first person by Oliver Warnock, an oil surveyor, whose wife Isabella is an archaeologist. She discovers a unique and priceless artefact in an underwater location off Alexandria, but gets trapped by an underwater earthquake and drowns. But Oliver now has this fascinating mechanism, the astartium, and is hunted high and low by a range of people desperate to get hold of it. It is a well-told and exciting story with a startling ending, though the book is rather long. By using Oliver as her mouthpiece the author has to some extent diluted Oliver's characterisation, but seeing the author is female, she has done quite a good job, and the story is compelling and readable.

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3.0 out of 5 stars d1234
Slightly slow to get going and a very long book at that. I found it to be quite an unbelievable story but nevertheless well written and entertaining. Read more

Published 7 days ago by d1234

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Awful
This is the first book I've abandoned in a very long time but life is too short to read this dross. It's improbable, badly-written and just plain not worth your time. Read more

Published 1 month ago by suggsygirl

4.0 out of 5 stars Great yarn. Poor research
A really first class adventure that keeps you guessing and hypothesising. You really do warm and feel for Oliver as a man denied greaving, as he moves ever closer to the edge of... Read more

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I had a tough time finishing the book... The plot (confusing, too detailed and not really making much sense at times) took forever to develop into anything close to enjoyable. Read more

Published 18 months ago by Karin Meyer

1.0 out of 5 stars Beyond belief
This book was billed as a thriller and unputdownable. It's neither.

The character descriptions are hackneyed and trite: the main partners are either beautiful or of... Read more

Published 18 months ago by PaperPanther

3.0 out of 5 stars The book is OK
Don't expect much of the story/narrative. I read it within few days looking for something entretaining. It fit the purpose. Read more

Published 21 months ago by Cristina Sette

4.0 out of 5 stars Sphinx by T.S. Learner
This is an ideal holiday read - an atmospheric, fast-moving thriller set in late seventies Egypt and England, with a host of colourful characters, ranging from grizzled,... Read more

Published 21 months ago by Ms. Kelly C. Davis

5.0 out of 5 stars I was hooked from the first page!
This is a fantastic story and very addictive, I found myself not able to put the book down.

We follow our "unlikely" hero Oliver Warnock trying to discover and find the... Read more

Published 21 months ago by Martin Belcher

4.0 out of 5 stars I can smell Egypt in this book's pages!
I love a good thriller; one that really sticks to your hand until the last page. Sphinx certainly answers this. Read more

Published 21 months ago by F. A. Wilson

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