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Set on the glittering banks of the Nile, the story follows Taita, a brilliant freed slave and advisor to the Pharaoh, as he formulates a bold plan to topple the Hyksos threat to Egypt. His perilous journey carries him upriver, across Arabian lands, into the mystical city of Babylon, and beyond the sea, all while surrounded by the Pharaoh’s alluring sisters. With the fate of the kingdom in his hands, Taita faces a world where loyalty and treachery blur like desert sand, danger lurks in shadows, and death hovers at the edge of darkness.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Historical Fiction/Ancient Historical Fiction
Authors: Wilbur Smith
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