Lord of the Silent

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Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia and Emerson - with their family in tow - set sail once again for Egypt, where ghosts of an ancient past and spectres of a present-day evil hover silently over an inscrutable land.

In this autumn of 1915 the exotic, alluring city of Cairo is not what it once was. Transformed into an army camp teeming with enemy agents, and shockingly bold tomb robbers brazenly desecrating the ancient sites, Amelia seeks refuge at a remote dig in Luxor. Yet Luxor provides no guarantee of safety, especially after Amelia discovers a fresh corpse resting in an ancient tomb.

But there is an even darker danger in store for the Emersons.  Can it be that Amelia's oldest and most dangerous adversaries will intervene to alter the family's destiny?  Tantalising clues suggest that this might be so, and point towards an archaelogical discovery of unparalleled importance - and the resurrection of a voice that has been silent for milennia.