A brilliant atmospheric thriller, set in Cairo and the surrounding tombs and deserts, involving the threat of the past entwined with present deaths and future machinations.  Omar Ross, a maverick archaeologist, is disturbed by the death at the foot of the pyramids of Giza, of his old colleague, a famous Egyptologist, Richard Cranwell. Cranwell had become obsessed by his search for the legendary lost city of Zerzura.  Ross's suspicions become further aroused by documents left referring to other deaths, of Carnarvon, of Wingate, of Carter, all linked by the inscription for the god Thoth. It seems as if Cranwell had been on the verge of a great discovery; but every contact, every informant, disappears: Cranwell's body itself is lost and Ross, threatened, beleagured and friendless, turns to his mother's family, of the Bedouin tribe.  This is a first novel with a difference. Written with great confidence, it is rich with Egyptian mythology and history, its new discoveries are plausible and convincing, the secret organizations and believers complex and frightening, and the cast of characters lively and varied.

The Eye of Ra

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Asher. Michael

Thrillers & Suspense

Harpercollins

A new departure for the author of Firebird and Eye of Ra, this novel is a dramatic, contemporary thriller: a David and Goliath story featuring western might against desert tribes, and the man who becomes their champion. The book opens in Sudan, with the discovery of a modern corpse in a remote archaelogical site, its heavy

RARE EARTH

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

Written by the same author as "A Desert Dies" and "In Search of the Forty Days Road", this book describes the longest camel journey ever made by Westerners. The author and his wife made unique observations along the way of the effects of the drought and the increasing spread of the desert.

Impossible Journey: Two Against The Sahara

Travel

Penguin Uk

Impossible Journey: Two Against the Sahara

Travel Writing

Penguin??Books

In Search of the Forty Days Road

In Search of the Forty Days Adventures with the Nomads of the Desert

Shoot to Kill

In 1971 Michael Asher joined the Parachute Regiment of the British Army. This book tells of Asher's experiences as he was subjected to deliberate intimidation by instructors, as injury, and even in some cases death, weeded out his fellow recruits. "Shoot to Kill" describes the author's recruitment experience as well as the subsequent eight years in which he journeyed from the streets of Belfast, and the bloody hills of Armagh; to SAS selection and resistance to interrogation procedures and the mysteries of 'the killing house'. This book tells of Asher's attempt to come to terms with the dark side that exists in every personality.

Two Against the Sahara on Camelback from Nouakchott to the Nile (Penguin Travel Library)

Viking Pr

The Last of the Bedu: In Search of the Myth

History

World

Penguin Group Canada

'The best life of Lawrence yet published' - The Express Lawrence was a brilliant propagandist, rhetorician and manipulator, who deliberately turned his life into a conundrum. But who was the real man behind the masks? Lawrence began the GreatWar as a map-clerk and ended it as one of the greatest military heroes of the 20th century. He altered the face of the Middle East, helped to lead the Arabs to freedom and formulated modern guerilla warfare. Yet he refused any honours and spent therest of his life in near obscurity. Desert explorer and Arabist, Michael Asher, set out to solve this riddle and discovers a hero whose greatness owed as much to his weaknesses as to his strengths.

Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia

Business & Money

Investing

The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero General Gordon was surrounded and murdered in Khartoum by an army of dervishes led by the Mahdi. The relief mission arrived 2 days too late. The result was a national scandal that shocked the Queen and led to the fall of the British government. Twelve years later it was the brilliant Herbert Kitchener who struck back. Achieving the impossible he built a railway across the desert to transport his troops to the final devastating confrontation at Omdurman in 1898. Desert explorer and author Michael Asher has reconstructed this classic tale in vivid detail. Having covered every inch of the ground and examined all eyewitness reports, he brings to bear new evidence questioning several accepted aspects of the story. The result is an account that sheds new light on the most riveting tale of honour, courage, revenge and savagery of late Victorian times.

Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure

Africa

Penguin

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