The Scorpions Bite

Name: The Scorpions Bite
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Aileen G. Baron
ISBN: 9781441754455

Author: Aileen G. Baron

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Unabridged: 4 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 08/03/2010

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

It is 1943 and the world is at war. Archaeologist Lily Sampson has been sent by the Office of Strategic Services to survey TransJordan, along with Gideon Weil, the famous director of the American School of Archeological Research in Jerusalem. In the beautiful, silent, TransJordanian desert, they become stranded in the Wadi Rum and their Bedouin guide is murdered. When Gideon is accused of the crime, Lily must clear him of the accusation. Lily discovers that two oil pipelines from Iraq run through the desert: one through TransJordan which supplies the Allies and another through Syria which supplies the Nazis. At the same time, Lily learns of a Nazi plot to kidnap and kill the eightyearold king of Iraq. Now, Lily and Gideon must act to protect the TransJordan pipeline, sabotage the Syrian line, and rescue the king to prevent the Nazi takeover of Iraq. A Posioned Pen Press Mystery

About Aileen G. Baron

Aileen G. Baron has a PhD in archaeology and taught for twenty years in the anthropology department at California State University, Fullerton. Her many years of archaeological fieldwork in the Middle East include a year at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hermien on July 15, 2019

Enjoyable, particularly because of its setting and historical background.......more

Goodreads review by Mary on December 12, 2018

In this 3rd outing, archaeologist Lily Sampson aids in the WWII war effort in the Middle East by attempting to blow up the Axis' oil pipeline, while at the same time attempting to rescue child King Faisal II from a kidnapping. The author again includes a wealth of information about the region, time,......more

Goodreads review by Audrey on February 26, 2011

Third in the Lily Sampson series, The Scorpion's Bite is another archaeological thriller written by Aileen G. Baron. As in Baron's novel, The Torch of Tangier, Lily is the archaeologist who is purposely placed by the OSS in the Middle East during World War II to do more than dig around ruins. Lily's......more

Goodreads review by Denise on November 07, 2010

The Scorpion's Bite by Aileen G. Baron is the third book in a series about Lily Sampson, an archaeologist and intelligence agent in the Trans-Jordan desert during World War II. When her Bedouin guide is murdered and her traveling companion accused of the crime she doesn't know who to trust or where......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on May 14, 2010

From my blog... A beautifully descriptive and mysterious novel, The Scorpion's Bite by Aileen G. Barron is a definite page-turner. WWII is waging on when two archeologists, Gideon Weil and Lily Samson, along with photographer Klaus Steiner set out on an archeological mission from the OSS to survey Tr......more