The Buried Pyramid

Is It Better For the Lost to Remain Unfound?

As a young officer in Her Majesty's army in Egypt, Neville Hawthorne was assigned to escort German archeologist Alphonse Liebermann to find the tomb of Neferankhotep, a pharaoh said to be so beloved of the gods that they themselves built his final resting place. Liebermann's expedition suffered a disastrous ending from which all Neville gained was a permanently injured leg. Now a civilian of middle years, financially secure, and knighted for his achievements, Neville has decided he will not rest until he finds the tomb of Neferankhotep.

Seventeen-year-old Jenny Benet grew up in the Wild West, daughter of a French frontier doctor and unconventional English woman. Now orphaned, having discovered that polite society bores her to tears, she flees to her Uncle Neville. When Jenny finds he will be leaving for Egypt, she's determined not to be left behind.

Dogged by messages from a cipher-crazed doomsayer self-styled "Sphinx," Neville, Jenny, and their companions become drawn into an intrigue nearly as old as Egypt. If they hope to succeed where Liebermann failed, they must pass from the land of the living into that of the deadand be judged as no one in thousands of years has been judged.

Of The Buried Pyramid, Publisher's Weekly says: Lindskold delivers an exotic historical fantasy that takes the reader from Victorian England to Egypt. Lindskold does a fine job of describing the English lifestyle of the day and ancient Egyptian rituals. The action [shifts] to high gear and the supernatural spookiness carries the story to a satisfying conclusion.

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