If only all history lessons could be like this! Adventurer Ethan Gage arrives in Jerusalem still on a quest for ancient knowledge and hardened by the loss of the woman he loves. The French, led by Napoleon are trying to conquer the Middle East, do they seek the same thing Gage does? Old enemies and new friends help Gage in his quest. Gage uses his brain and his mentor Ben Franklin's knowledge to survive against impossible odds. Will Gage find The Book of Thoth? and can he trust the Rosetta Key - a woman risen from the dead to bewitch him again.
This is fic-history at it's best. The battles of Jaffa and the subsequent massacre, the Siege of Acre and the battles at Mount Tabor are all historical record. Dietrich winds Ethan Gage into this world and makes it real for the reader. He also shows how the supposedly civilised French could be capable of such horrific atrocities and how war un-civilises even the most cultural of races. A cracking read, I can't wait to read Napoleon's Pyramids - the first of the Gage books.
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