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"A frothy, swashbuckling tale of high adventure....Escapist fiction at its ultimate." --Seattle Times "It has a plot as satisfying as an Indiana Jones film and offers enough historical knowledge to render the reader a fascinating raconteur on the topics of ancient Egypt and Napoleon Bonaparte." --USA Today A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author William Dietrich introduces readers to the globe-trotting American adventurer Ethan Gage in Napoleon's Pyramids--an ingenious, swashbuckling yarn whose action-packed pages nearly turn themselves. The first book in Dietrich's fabulously fun New York Times bestselling series, Napoleon's Pyramids follows the irrepressible Gage--a brother in spirit to George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman--as he travels with Napoleon's expedition across the burning Egyptian desert in an attempt to solve a 6,000 year old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion. Here is superior adventure fiction in the spirit of Jack London, Robert Lewis Stevenson, and H. Rider Haggard, and fans of their acclaimed successors--James Rollins, David Liss, Steve Berry, Kate Mosse--will certainly want to get to know Ethan Gage. … (més)
París, 1798. Ethan Gage parte hacia Egipto tras haber ganado un misterioso medallón que, supuestamente, perteneció a Cleopatra. Allí buscará las respuestas para comprender el poder que tiene ese objeto codiciado por todos: la llave de una puerta que aún no ha sido encontrada tras la que se encuentra el Libro de Thoth, en lo que se convertirá en una peligrosa y trepidante aventura.
The start of the book was hard for me to get into, a bit slow. Once the main characters were in egypt the story started to get interesting. By the end of the book I was iching to read the second. Well writen considering some to the inventive details. ( )
This one promised to be a frolicking adventure and it did not let me down there. So many epic locations were included as backdrops to our tale. I liked the characters, Gage, Napoleon, even General Dumas - the tale felt like one of Alexandre Dumas' Musketeer romps. I was very aware of the author's pacing. Some passages would be hell-for-leather and then there would be a long chapter of talking and explaining. I loved the occasional witty banter. I was bored several times but I always came back, which I guess is something. I'm not sure if I'll read more the in series or not. ( )
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What is God? He is length, width, height, and depth. - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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To my daughter, Lisa
Primeres paraules
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It was luck at cards that started the trouble, and enlistment in the mad invasion that seemed the way out of it. I won a trinket and almost lost my life, so take a lesson. Gambling is a vice.
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Darreres paraules
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And as I contemplated the will of the gods and the luck of cards, the bow of our ship began to turn.
"A frothy, swashbuckling tale of high adventure....Escapist fiction at its ultimate." --Seattle Times "It has a plot as satisfying as an Indiana Jones film and offers enough historical knowledge to render the reader a fascinating raconteur on the topics of ancient Egypt and Napoleon Bonaparte." --USA Today A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author William Dietrich introduces readers to the globe-trotting American adventurer Ethan Gage in Napoleon's Pyramids--an ingenious, swashbuckling yarn whose action-packed pages nearly turn themselves. The first book in Dietrich's fabulously fun New York Times bestselling series, Napoleon's Pyramids follows the irrepressible Gage--a brother in spirit to George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman--as he travels with Napoleon's expedition across the burning Egyptian desert in an attempt to solve a 6,000 year old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion. Here is superior adventure fiction in the spirit of Jack London, Robert Lewis Stevenson, and H. Rider Haggard, and fans of their acclaimed successors--James Rollins, David Liss, Steve Berry, Kate Mosse--will certainly want to get to know Ethan Gage.
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