The Rosetta Key, William Dietrich
The Rosetta Key, William Dietrich
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The Rosetta Key

Author: William Dietrich

Narrator: Jeff Woodman

Unabridged: 12 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/22/2008


Synopsis

“An utterly captivating romp from the treacherous tunnels beneath Jerusalem to the lost City of Ghosts (Petra, Jordan) to the tumult of revolutionary Paris….Dietrich spins a merry magical mystery tour, winningly intricate and anchored to actual historical figures and events….Mr. Spielberg! Mr. Lucas! It’s your move.”
—Seattle Times
 
Dashing and courageous American adventurer Ethan Gage returns in William Dietrich’s The Rosetta Key—the thrilling sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s acclaimed Napoleon’s Pyramids. An eighteenth century Indiana Jones, Gage swashbuckles once again, this time in pursuit of a precious Egyptian relic that would give its owner the power to rule the world. The Rosetta Key an adventure in reading that is not to be missed, especially by fans of George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman novels and aficionados of a grand literary tradition dating back to Jack London, Robert Lewis Stevenson, and H. Rider Haggard, and carried on today by such notables as James Rollins, David Liss, Steve Berry, and Kate Mosse.

About William Dietrich

William Dietrich is the author of fourteen novels, including six previous Ethan Gage titles—Napoleon's Pyramids, The Rosetta Key, The Dakota Cipher, The Barbary Pirates, The Emerald Storm, and The Barbed Crown. Dietrich is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian, and naturalist. A winner of the PNBA Award for Nonfiction, he lives in Washington State.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lewis on December 28, 2016

I enjoyed book 1 in this series but not this one ... it is a bad imitation of Indiana Jones......more

Goodreads review by Beatriz on August 09, 2021

Un libro muy entretenido y tan bien escrito que es un placer leerlo. A su personaje principal, un embaucador y aventurero de lo más encantador, ya lo conocimos en la primera novela, Las pirámides de Napoleón, por lo que ahora sólo tenemos que disfrutar su capacidad de meterse en problemas, así como......more

Goodreads review by Marie on August 15, 2016

Another exciting Ethan Gage adventure! Just a heads up: this is the second Ethan Gage saga, so there may be spoilers to Napoleon's Pyramids in this review. I'll admit: it took me a minute to warm up to these books. I thought that Ethan Gage was a bit pretentious and the story a little implausible in......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on February 20, 2015

This is the second fast-paced rollicking historical adventure featuring Ethan Gage. A former student of Benjamin Franklin, Gage has survived the adventures recounted in Napoleon's Pyramids and has now engaged upon a search for a legendary Egyptian scroll, the Book of Thoth, in the Middle East. The a......more

Goodreads review by Laura on January 03, 2015

This book has it all: Indiana Jones-type escapes, the Knights Templar, Petra, Napoleon... all topped off with bad writing and plotting. If you absolutely love this genre, well, I'm sure you'll like the book.......more