The Last Secret Of The Temple - Sussman, Paul
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When the body of an aged hotel owner is discovered amidst the ruins of a rarely-visited archaeological site by the Nile, Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police expects it to be an open-and-shut case. But, the more he finds out about the dead man, the uneasier he becomes. It reminds him of an earlier death - the brutal murder of an Israeli woman for which he always suspected they'd convicted the wrong man. What begins as a routine investigation rapidly turns out to be anything but...Forced into an uneasy alliance with a hard-drinking Jerusalem detective and a campaigning Palestinian…mehr

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When the body of an aged hotel owner is discovered amidst the ruins of a rarely-visited archaeological site by the Nile, Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police expects it to be an open-and-shut case. But, the more he finds out about the dead man, the uneasier he becomes. It reminds him of an earlier death - the brutal murder of an Israeli woman for which he always suspected they'd convicted the wrong man. What begins as a routine investigation rapidly turns out to be anything but...Forced into an uneasy alliance with a hard-drinking Jerusalem detective and a campaigning Palestinian journalist, Khalifa enters a murky, murderous world of greed, duplicity, intrigue and revenge as he goes in search of an elusive 2000 year-old mystery with the power, if it fell into the wrong hands, to plunge the Middle East into all-out war...Spanning the millennia - from ancient Jerusalem and the Crusades to the Holocaust and the modern-day no-man's landof the Gaza strip, from Cathar heretics to coded medieval manuscripts and long-lost Nazi treasure - "The Last Secret of the Temple" is a thrilling, rollercoaster adventure.

Ohne Grund würde niemand hierherkommen an diese entlegene Grabungsstätte. Das weiß auch Inspektor Yusuf Khalifa von der Polizei in Luxor. Wonach aber hat der undurchsichtige Piet Jansen im Tal der Könige gesucht? In seiner Leiche findet man das Gift eines Skorpions, doch Khalifa will nicht an einen zufälligen Tod glauben. Jansen muß einem Geheimnis auf der Spur gewesen sein, daran läßt schon der antike Lehmziegel in seinem Rucksack keinen Zweifel. Im Haus des Getöteten stößt Khalifa schließlich aufFundstücke von unschätzbarem Wert - und einen mit einer Feder geschmückten Hut, der auf einen fünfzehn Jahre zurückliegenden grausigen Mord verweist. Die Tote damals war Israelin, der Täter aber ist bis heute nicht identifiziert. Zusammen mit seinem Kollegen Ben-Roi von der Jerusalemer Polizei beginnt Yusuf Khalifa in einem Fall zu ermitteln, dessen Wurzeln über 2000 Jahre zurückreichen.

Autorenporträt
Journalist and novelist Paul Sussman read history at Cambridge, where he won a Joseph Larmor Award and was a Boxing Blue. From an early age his abiding passion was archaeology and he worked in the field, in particular in Egypt (where he was part of the first team to excavate new ground in the Valley of the Kings since the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922). He brought this interest and enthusiasm to his novels - The Lost Army of Cambyses, The Last Secret of the Temple, The Hidden Oasis and The Labyrinth of Osiris - which have been translated into over 30 languages and have sold over three million copies. Paul's journalism appeared across the media, including in the Big Issue, Independent, Guardian, Evening Standard and on CNN.com. Paul died suddenly in May 2012, aged 45. He is survived by his wife, a television producer, and their two sons. In 2014, the posthumous publication of what was in fact his first novel - The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix - fulfilled a long-held wish.
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'The intelligent reader's answer to The Da Vinci Code: a big, fat satisfying archaeological puzzle' INDEPENDENT