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<p><b>The multi-million copy bestseller Wilbur Smith is back with his most thrilling novel yet<br><br>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>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?<br><br>Who will survive the battle in the house of the two pharaohs?<br><br><br><b>Praise for Wilbur Smith</b><br><br><b>'A master storyteller' Sunday Times<br><br>'No one does adventure quite like Smith' Daily Mirror<br><br>'Best historical novelist' Stephen King </b></p>