Kingdom of darkness
By: Andy McDermott
Series: A Wilde and Chase adventure -- 10
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780755380725; 9780755380732; 9780755380749
Subjects: Concentration camps; World War, 1939-1945; Nazis; Fiction
Description: What's the connection between a dig in Alexandria for Alexander the Great's tomb and a wanted Nazi war criminal? Nina and Eddie about to find out as they go on a search across the globe, from Egypt to Argentina and Italy to Iran, to find the truth. They have located the most exciting archaeological treasures the world has ever known - they have found Atlantis and walked in the Garden of Eden, they have wielded Excalibur and seen the vast sums of gold in El Dorado. Could they now be about to find the greatest prize of all - the secret to eternal life?
Table of contents: title: 1943; title: Occupied Greece. The SS unit's mission was simple: round up Jews for the concentration camps. But beneath an isolated farmhouse, they find a far greater bounty; title: a hidden shrine to Alexander the Great and an urn filled with water possessing mysterious qualities. The Nazis take the treasure in the name of Hitler and disappear ... Present Day; title: Los Angeles Archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband Eddie Chase are sought out by a young man, desperate to warn her about a planned raid on Alexander's newly-discovered tomb in Egypt. But before he can explain more, he is assassinated by a wanted Nazi war criminal; title: who has barely aged in seventy years. As Nina and Eddie search for answers, they discover that the most evil regime in history is threatening to rise again.