Napoleon's Pyramids: An Ethan Gage Adventure (Ethan Gage Adventures, 1)

“It has a plot as satisfying as an Indiana Jones film and offers enough historical knowledge to render the reader a fascinating raconteur on the topics of ancient Egypt and Napoleon Bonaparte.” —USA Today

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author William Dietrich introduces readers to the globe-trotting American adventurer Ethan Gage in Napoleon’s Pyramids—an ingenious, swashbuckling yarn whose action-packed pages nearly turn themselves. 

The first book in Dietrich’s fabulously fun New York Times bestselling series, Napoleon’s Pyramids follows the irrepressible Gage—a brother in spirit to George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman—as he travels with Napoleon’s expedition across the burning Egyptian desert in an attempt to solve a 6,000 year old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion. Here is superior adventure fiction in the spirit of Jack London, Robert Lewis Stevenson, and H. Rider Haggard, and fans of their acclaimed successors—James Rollins, David Liss, Steve Berry, Kate Mosse—will certainly want to get to know Ethan Gage.

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400 pages

Average rating: 5

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DD86
Feb 20, 2023
5/10 stars
Dietrich researched his history well and the story of Napoleon in Egypt is fascinating. Unfortunately, the writing is a bit bumbling and there were times when I yelled, "get to the point" and then the action and interest would peak again. The bravado Dietrich (and a lot of male authors) gives his male protagonist rings a bit like a caricature (one critic called him half Indiana Jones and half Ron Burgundy). There is action in this novel and a nice set up at the end for a sequel.

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