R D Byron-Smith

SOUL of the MUMMY R D Byron-Smith

From Soul of the Mummy: "For energetic Egyptologist Barnaby Mudge the surrounding jagged crags and zig-zagging gullies seemed to funnel all life - and for that matter death - into this one-of-a-kind rocky mausoleum, where he spent winters from November to April, and where he came alive among the silent graves. Yet, stasis is what he liked most about the desert. The sterile landscape was always at rest, and even the clouds when they occasionally visited the bright azure overhead remained stoic and predictable, as if buried in the sky. Valley of the Kings never changed, and Mudge figured it is what the powerful pharaohs liked about it too: they knew what they were getting into."Never had a pharaoh stirred more upheaval in Egypt than Heretic King Akhenaten, father of King Tut, and never had a son despised his father more for his ill deeds. Shaming him, Tutankhamun wiped his father's name clean from public displays 3,000 years ago to keep it secret from history. In 1980, Egyptologist Barnaby Mudge is sought out by the most infamous clan of tomb robbers in the history of the Egyptian necropolis, and led to a lost tomb. The young Egyptologist soon learns Tutankhamun kept something else secret, something he feared. The pharaoh ordered this powerful evil locked in a hellish tomb where it remained in silent repose for millennia.. . . Until Barnaby Mudge couldn't resist. Soul of the Mummy is a horror story that hasn't forgotten love. One of RD's best. - Pilar Publishing of California.