Ghosts of Karnak: A Ghost Novel

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Things are quiet in New York. Unusually quiet. Gabriel - the Ghost - knows that something's wrong. There's a heat wave building for a start, and it feels as if the pressure's getting unbearable. Something's going to give. When an expedition returns from Cairo to exhibit their finds at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gabriel takes a keen interest. An old friend and lover - a girl called Ginny, who he hasn't seen for over a year - was part of the expedition. Something's not right with Ginny, however, and not just the fact she's still drinking...something happened to her in Cairo, out on the dig. Something that's related to a strange cult known as The Circle of Thoth, a baboon with a clockwork eye, dust devils on Fifth Avenue, robed assassins, sacrificial rites, a 'resurrection machine' and a ghostly figure clad in trailing bandages, seen floating over the rooftops of the city. Ancient forces are stirring, and the Ghost, Ginny and Gabriel's friend Donovan are caught right in the middle...

George Mann is the author of the Newbury and Hobbes and The Ghost series of novels, as well as numerous short stories, novellas and audiobooks. He has written fiction and audio scripts for the BBC's Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes. He is also a respected anthologist and has edited The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction and The Solaris Book of New Fantasy. He lives near Grantham, UK.

"Mann manages to pull it off...with this fast-moving adventure" - Barnes & Noble Sci Fi Blog