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The Last Secret of the Temple

By: Paul Sussman
Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
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From the best-selling author of The Lost Army of Cambyses, the new Inspector Khalifa thriller.

When the body of hotel owner Piet Jansen is discovered amid the ruins of an archaeological site by the Nile, it looks like a routine investigation for Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police. But the more he learns about Jansen, the more he is reminded of the brutal murder, some years earlier, of an Israeli woman at Karnak for which he always suspected the wrong man was convicted. Ignoring the objections of his superiors, Khalifa re-opens the case, but to do so, he finds he's obliged to team up with a bigoted, hard-drinking Israeli detective.

©2006 Paul Sussman; (P)2006 W F Howes Ltd Mystery Thriller & Suspense Middle East Crime Mind-bending Middle Ages Suspense Holocaust Crusade
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"The intelligent reader's answer to The Da Vinci Code." (Independent)
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I thought that this was a good Yarn, it whilled away the time when travelling to and from work in an acceptable manner.

Plot was good, but at times if you were not concentrating could be lost a little so there were one or two times when I had to rewind just to check where I had got to and why I did not understand what had happened.

Enough twists in the plot to keep you interested and guessing till almost the end. I suspect this has been written with one hopeful eye on the movie industry as I can imagine it translating well into a Indianna Jones/Lara Croft type film with enough antagonism between the police officers to add the dramatic interest as the plot unfolds.

A good yarn

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about the use of bad language. The author had a shortage of adjectives and used the F word far too frequently, much more than was necessary for the plot.This was unfortunate because the plot was excellent and I enjoyed moving backwards and forwards between the centuries and the different places, but I DID NOT enjoy the expletives. I found these totally unnecessary and if I had been warned beforehand would not have purchased it. I am not narrow minded but enough is enough of anything.

would have liked a warning

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The story is very slow to start and takes some patience to stick with it. However once it gets going, maybe one third if the way in, the book becomes fascinating with unexpected twists and turns. Such a pity that the author is no longer with us.

The relevance of the story to the present day (re Oct23).

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Started slowly, but once it got going it really turned into one of those stories you need to find a reason for 'sneaking out to walk the dog' and pick up where you left off the story.

Never thought I would, but I did enjoy this.

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of love, friendship, redemption and Nazis.

I'm not in any way dismissing the very serious real world situation in the Middle East. In fact I understand it a little better now. It's therefore a bit slow at the beginning setting the scene, as other readers have noted, but it really gets going about a quarter of the way in.

The narrator does a superb job of bringing the characters to life and I shed a tear at the end, such was the emotion of the final denouement.

I can't wait for the next Khalifa instalment and I hope Ben Roy turns up again somewhere.

I LOVED this book - brilliantly told story

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