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Action/Thriller
Publisher: Amazon Kindle
Type: Fiction
Egypt’s forbidden power… The fate of the world written in stone...
Was Egypt's magical Book of Thoth originally carved in stone - on a stela - rather than written on a scroll? Anson Hunter, controversial alternative Egyptologist and theorist, is obsessed with locating the forbidden Stela of Destiny before the wrong people get hold of it. The Stela, or stone book, of Thoth, Egypt’s god of magic, is the most powerful and malefic source of esoteric texts ever written. The texts bring frightening power but also a terrible backlash. Twice in history the contents have come to light – the first time in the reign of Rameses the Great, linked with the Plagues of Egypt and the suffering of the Hebrews, and in 1939 when a German Egyptologist took rubbings of the stone texts to Hitler’s Germany before the horrors of World War II. Israeli Intelligence and its allies in the USA become alarmed when the Destiny Stela threatens to break into history once again. As they are all too aware, the Stela of Destiny is the Holy Grail for organisations and conspirators with dangerous political and religious agendas, both in the USA and in Europe. Anson embarks on an investigation under the cover of shooting a screen documentary, pursued by enemies and shadowed by striking Israeli Mossad agent Zara Margolin and suspicious Egyptian authorities, in a hunt that covers USA, UK and secret archaeological sites in Egypt. Can he find and penetrate the deadly series of chambers of the Sanctuary of Thoth that guards the Stela of Destiny before a dangerous new dawn breaks for humankind? ‘The Ibis Apocalypse’ is a danger-fraught adventure that unfolds against the background of ancient Egypt’s enthralling legend and mythology. (Out on Amazon Kindle and Paperback)
Excerpt
“SORRY, ANSON. Your search for the stela ends here!” The voice of a woman funnels down an underground tomb passage, the echoes fluttering off the stone like startled bats. Anson Hunter, alternative Egyptologist and theorist feezes. A rumble of thunder comes to deepen his puzzlement and then a screech, the sound of stone moving over stone, grinding, scouring. He feels a tremble under his feet. He spins his flashlight. The abrasion grows to a roar that makes his eardrums cower. A slab of darkness surges out of deeper darkness. His beam flares on a block of granite in a humanoid shape. A man mountain. It is a stone block with a carved head on top… a colossal block-statue of a High Priest of Thoth, weighing tons. The cubic man, with head, feet and hands protruding, squats on a base with his knees raised and arms folded across them under a cloak to form a crushing volume in stone. In the turmoil, the passage trembles and so does Anson. The wigged and bearded face on top of the block wears a smile that belies the missile’s crushing intent as the statue shudders over the floor. Hieroglyphs on the front of the block leap into Anson’s vision like an execration hurled at him, a spell to obliterate an intruder…. So begins The Ibis Apocalypse… Egypt’s forbidden power… The fate of the world written in stone...
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