The Egyptologist: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructednovel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922,then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by wayof Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil.

Just as Howard Carter unveils the tomb of Tutankhamun, making the most dazzling findin the history of archaeology, Oxford-educated Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush is digginghimself into trouble, having staked his professional reputation and his fiancée’sfortune on a scrap of hieroglyphic pornography. Meanwhile, a relentless Australiandetective sets off on the case of his career, spanning the globe in search of a another murderer. And possibly another murderer. The confluence of these seeminglyseparate stories results in an explosive ending, at once inevitable and utterly unpredictable.

Arthur Phillips leads this expedition to its unforgettable climax with all the witand narrative bravado that made Prague one of the most critically acclaimed novelsof 2002. Exploring issues of class, greed, ambition, and the very human hunger foreternal life, this staggering second novel gives us a glimpse of Phillips’s rangeand maturity–and is sure to earn him further acclaim as one of the most excitingauthors of his generation.