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In ancient Egypt during the reign of Tutankhamun, Lord Meren joins forces with Anath, the Eyes of Babylon, a clever female counterpart, to find out who poisoned Queen Nefertiti and to stop a treacherous conspiracy out to bring down the pharaoh.
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A teenager on the great throne of Egypt is a dangerous thing. Tempted by debauchery, unbalanced by the murders that put him in power, King Tut is being driven mad by the question of who killed his beloved foster mother, Nefertiti.Lord Meren is Tutankhamun's last hope. The detective and master spy is barely recovered from wounds received when he discovered who had administered the poison to the kingdom's adored queen - but not the evil mastermind behind the crime. Now he sees an imminent darkness consuming the world he knows, a conspiracy of such magnitude that the harmony and future of Egypt is threatened.Joining with the astonishing woman warrior Anath, a.k.a. the Eyes of Babylon, Meren soon realizes that the one remaining witness to Nefertiti's murder is her old bodyguard, still alive in the up-river city of Syene. Sailing away from the majestic capital of Memphis, Meren begins a journey into a land awash in peril. For in a titanic clash of old ways and new, former gods and a new religion, a fanatical enemy is cunning and evil enough to plan the murder of a pharaoh - and waits for the right moment to destroy a glittering, incomparable world.
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