The Last Secret of the Temple
Paul Sussman
Aug 2006 · W F Howes · Narrated by Gordon Griffin
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The Independent called it 'The intelligent reader's answer to the Da Vinci Code': When the body of hotel owner Piet Jansen is discovered amid the ruins of an archaeological site by the Nile, it looks like a routine investigation for Inspector Yusuf Khalifa.
But the more he learns about Jansen, the more he is reminded of the brutal murder, some years earlier, of an Israeli woman at Karnak for which he always suspected the wrong man was convicted. Ignoring the objections of his superiors, Khalifa re-opens the case, but to do so he finds he's obliged to team up with a bigoted, hard-drinking Israeli detective...
But the more he learns about Jansen, the more he is reminded of the brutal murder, some years earlier, of an Israeli woman at Karnak for which he always suspected the wrong man was convicted. Ignoring the objections of his superiors, Khalifa re-opens the case, but to do so he finds he's obliged to team up with a bigoted, hard-drinking Israeli detective...
About the author
Howard Jacobson was born on August 25, 1942 in Manchester, England. He is a Man Booker Prize-winning British author and journalist. He studied English at Downing College, Cambridge under F. R. Leavis. He lectured for three years at the University of Sydney before returning to England to teach at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His later teaching posts included a period at Wolverhampton Polytechnic from 1974 to 1980. His time at Wolverhampton was to form the basis of his first novel, Coming from Behind, a campus comedy about a failing polytechnic that plans to merge facilities with a local football club. He also wrote a travel book in 1987, titled In the Land of Oz, which was researched during his time as a visiting academic in Sydney. His fiction, particularly in the six novels he has published since 1998, is characterised chiefly by a discursive and humorous style. His 1999 novel The Mighty Walzer, about a teenage table tennis champion, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing. In October 2010 Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question, which was the first comic novel to win the prize since Kingsley Amis's The Old Devils in 1986. In 2013 he made The New York Times Best Seller List with his title Whole Rethinking the Science of Nutrition which he co-authored with T. Colin Campbell. He will be at the Oz, New Zealand festival of literature and arts program in 2015 in London.
Paul Sussman was born in 1968. He received a history degree from Cambridge University. He began his professional writing career as feature writer and film editor for The Big Issue Magazine. He also wrote a weekly column entitled In the News. Some of the columns were collected in his first book, Death by Spaghetti. He wrote primarily fiction books including The Lost Army of Cambyses, The Last Secret of the Temple, The Hidden Oasis, and The Labyrinth of Osiris. As a freelance journalist, he also wrote articles for The Guardian, The Independent, The Evening Standard, The Daily Express, CNN.com, and other publications. He worked extensively as a field archaeologist, particularly in Egypt. In 1998, he worked with the Amarna Royal Tombs Project, which was the first expedition to dig new ground in the Valley of the Kings since the discovery of Tutankhamun in 1922. He died after suffering a ruptured aneurysm on May 31, 2012 at the age of 45.
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