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Napoleon's Pyramids
by William Dietrich
from HarperCollins

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Post-revolutionary Indiana Jones-type adventure with Napoleon in Egypt - good fun
  William Dietrich has written a terrific yarn with "Napoleon's Pyramids," replete with action and humor, with just enough historical detail to be sufficiently authentic.
  Dietrich's novel revolves around one Ethan Gage, a former disciple of Benjamin Franklin now gambling and womanizing his way through revolutionary Paris. If you were casting Ethan Gage, you would definitely choose a young Harrison Ford or Michael Douglas, or today's Matthew McConaughy rather than Daniel Day Lewis or Ralph Fiennes. Armed... more info

• a mixture of Indian Jones and Flashman
  This book is about Ethan Gage, an American assistant to Benjamin Franklin, a bit adventurer and commodity trader, who is rather unsuccessful in his business endeavors, but happens to win in cards an Egyptian medallion, old and interesting enough, to bring him problems and path of destruction, leading him and all important characters of the book to fabled Egypt. The book is quite fascinating, mixing a bit energy of Indiana Jones movies with farcical adventures of `Flashman' by George MacDonal Fraser. Ethan... more info

• A safe bet
  Dietrich is a skilful author. Readers will appreciate the consistent yet unobtrusive references to Revolutionary French society throughout "Pyramids". More cerebral inclusions such as the famed "Fibonacci sequence" (de rigueur, you might say) is well handled.
  Most problematic are several archetypical characters; there is the Cleopatra-clone love-interest; the deadly "Moorish" assassin (Achmed not Ahmed!?); a band of mysterious gypsies; the stubborn Parisian land-lady; the bearded and zealous scholar,... more info

• A fun novel in the grand tradition of H. Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs!
  It was actually William Dietrich's newest historical novel, The Rosetta Key, which caught my attention and caused me to buy the prequel, Napoleon's Pyramids. I love the Indiana Jones movies and the old serials from the forties and fifties, so a story that deals with an adventurer in search for the Egyptian Book of Thoth and the Ark of the Covenant in Israel during Napoleon's invasion of 1799 was right up my ally, but first I needed to read Napoleon's Pyramids. I picked up a copy of it and found myself... more info

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