The Labyrinth of Osiris
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
From the international-bestselling author comes a "taut, entertaining archaeological murder-mystery-meets-spy-thriller" (Kirkus Reviews).
When journalist Rivka Kleinberg is brutally murdered in a Jerusalem cathedral, it's a complicated case for detective Arieh Ben-Roi. Kleinberg had racked up a wide array of enemies exposing corruption in the halls of power—from international corporations and the Russian mob to the Israeli government.
Learning that Kleinberg was working on a story involving Egypt, Ben-Roi enlists the help of his old friend Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police. Together they discover something far more sinister than a single murder.
Kleinberg was chasing a mystery spanning centuries—a timeless search for an incredible treasure that has cost countless people their lives, and a modern-day conspiracy that now threatens to add Ben-Roi and Khalifa to the tally of the dead.
From a highly respected archaeologist and international-bestselling author comes "a well-researched tale combining an archaeological puzzler with contemporary Middle Eastern concerns" (Financial Times).
"An absolutely top-notch thriller." —Daily Mail
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A grisly murder in Jerusalem lights the fuse of Sussman's powder-keg third thriller featuring Egyptian police detective Yusuf Ezz el-Din Khalifa (after 2005's The Last Secret of the Temple), who's reunited with his friend and Jerusalem counterpart, Arieh Ben-Roi. When investigative journalist Rivka Kleinberg is found garroted in an Armenian cathedral in Jerusalem, Ben-Roi follows up on the leads of Kleinberg's last story to find disparate clues involving a powerful American mining corporation, an anticapitalist vigilante group calling itself "The Nemesis Agenda," and a mining engineer's disappearance in Egypt more than 80 years earlier. These "threads and connections, a whole spider's web's worth," only twist, however, into even more byzantine intrigues embracing both Egypt's ancient archeological treasures and modern-day religious clashes. Sussman dexterously weaves the many subplots into a taut skein, never losing sight of his characters' humanity and troubled lives. Readers who enjoyed his previous cross-cultural thrillers will find much here to like.
