Just as Howard Carter unveils the tomb of Tutankhamun, making the most dazzling find in the history of archaeology, Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush is digging himself into trouble, having staked his professional reputation and his fiancée's fortune on a scrap of hieroglyphic pornography. Meanwhile, a relentless Australian detective sets off on the case of his career, spanning the globe in search of a murderer. Transporting the reader on a dazzling journey from the desert plains of 1920s Egypt, to the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil, The Egyptologist is a tour de force explosive and unpredictable right to its shocking finale. Arthur Phillips first novel, Prague, was an international bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book and recipient of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. The Egyptologist has been translated into sixteen languages. Phillips lives in New York with his wife and two sons.
