House of Two Pharaohs

<p><b>The multi-million copy bestseller Wilbur Smith is back with his most thrilling novel yet</b><br><br><b>Hidden in the shadows, an evil will rise . . .</b><br><br>Piay, appointed Nomarch of Memphis by the God-Pharoah Rameses, has transformed his city, rebuilding the famous white walls, feeding the once starving citizens and returning the wealth plundered by the barbarian Hyksos.<br><br>But when a murdered scribe is found sealed inside the city's newly-constructed vault - with the mark of Anubis, god of death, scrawled next to him in blood - panic tears through the people.<br><br>Piay calls on the only man in Egypt he knows can discover the truth: his mentor, the great sage Taita. But soon after Taita's arrival in Memphis, the bloody mark of Anubis appears again.<br><br>Taita and Piay are pitted against a criminal mastermind turned warlord. The pair's adversary has a simple, brutal aim: restore the Red Pretender's kingdom - and obliterate Rameses's forces.<br><br><b>Drawn into a desperate battle of wits, can Taita and Piay finally reunite the two kingdoms? Or will the shadow of the Red Pretender tear Egypt apart once again? </b><br><br><b>Who will survive the battle in the house of the two pharaohs?</b><br><br><b>Praise for Wilbur Smith</b><br><br>'A <b>master </b>storyteller' <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>'No one does<b> adventure</b> quite like Smith' <i>Daily Mirror</i><br><br>'<b>Best historical</b> novelist' Stephen King</p>