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The Lost Army of Cambyses

By: Paul Sussman
Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
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In 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 antiques 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 not so sure...

©2002 Paul Sussman (P)2004 W F Howes Ltd
Suspense Thriller & Suspense Middle East Pharaoh
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The story is very dated, with language that is no longer appropriate. For example, the author describing someone as a "retard". Also, the main female character is portrayed as helpless until the male hero comes along - which is just annoying.
The narrator should not have attempted the accents of the various characters - instead of sounding like real Egyptian or French people , they all sounded vaguely like actors from the movie Casablanca. This certainly undermined the authenticity of the story and the characters.

Very dated, narrator wrong for the book

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