Freunde des schwarzen Humors werden dieses Hörbuch lieben!Raphael Ignatius Phoenix hat schon beinahe ein Jahrhundert auf dem Buckel. Er findet, dass er nun lange genug auf der Erde geweilt hat und beschließt, dass sein 100. Geburtstag gleichzeitig sein Todestag werden soll. Doch vorher möchte er noch ein Geständnis ablegen. Aus dem Geständnis wird der längste und skurrilste Abschiedsbrief der Welt, in dem er seine Lebensgeschichte rekapituliert und beiläufig noch ein paar Morde gesteht.-
Sein Leben war lang genug, das findet zumindest Raphael Ignatius Phoenix. Deshalb beschließt er, sich an seinem 100. Geburtstag das Leben zu nehmen. Vorher gilt es aber noch ein Denkmal zu hinterlassen. Sein Abschiedsbrief, den er an die Wände seines Schlossdomizils schreibt, enthält seine mal lustige, mal traurige Lebensgeschichte - und die mehr oder weniger versehentlichen begangenen Morde.
Born at the beginning of the 20th century, Raphael Ignatius Phoenix is determined to take his own life as the new millennium begins and he turns a hundred years old. But before he ends it all, he wants to get his affairs in order, and that includes making sense of his own life. He decides to write it down, remembering the experiences, the myriad encounters and, of course, the ten murders he committed along the way...
From the author of the international bestseller The Last Secret of the Temple, Yusuf Khalifa and Arieh Ben-Roi are reunited in an explosive new thriller
Since they last met, life has moved on for Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police and hard-nosed Jerusalem detective Arieh Ben-Roi. Ben-Roi is about to become a father, and Khalifa is struggling with personal tragedies. Each is in isolation on his own case, however inexorably the two investigations begin to entwine, drawing the pair into a sinister web of violence, abuse, corporate malpractice and anti-capitalist terrorism. And at the heart of the web lies the Labyrinth...
In 523 BC, the Persian pharaoh Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt's western desert to destroy the oracle at Siwa. Legend has it that somewhere in the middle of the Great Dune Sea his army was overwhelmed by a sandstorm and lost forever. Two and a half millennia later, a mutilated corpse is washed up on the banks of the Nile at Luxor, an antiques dealer is savagely murdered in Cairo, and a British archaeologist is found dead at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara. The incidents appear unconnected, but Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police is not so sure...
Egypt 2153 BC: Eighty priests set out under cover of darkness into the western desert, taking with them a mysterious object swathed in cloth. Four weeks later, having reached their destination, they calmly slit each other's throats...
Albania, 1986: A plane takes off from a remote airfield, bound for the Sudan. On board, a cargo that will forever change the Middle East. Somewhere over the Sahara the plane disappears...
The western desert, the present day: A group of Bedouin discover a mummified corpse half-buried in the dunes. With it are a roll of camera film and a miniature clay obelisk inscribed with a curious hieroglyphic sign...
Three unconnected events - or so it seems until Freya Hannen arrives in Egypt for the funeral of her sister, a desert explorer who has inexplicably taken her own life...For Freya it is the start of a terrifying, life-or-death adventure - one that will lead her and Egyptologist Flin Brodie deep into the forbidding wastes of the Sahara.
A must listen for fans of Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy and Wilbur Smith.
Their goal: one of archaeology's greatest mysteries and the astonishing secret at its heart...
'A rip-roaring gem - you are in for a real treat! - Raymond Khoury
'A compelling, high-octane adventure novel that seamlessly meshes past and present...' - James Becker
'Hands down one of the best writers of international suspense in the business' - Steve Berry
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...
