The pharaoh Tutankhamun is dead, killed in a mysterious hunting accident. In theory, this should be good news for Huy, who was exiled from courtand prevented from working as a scribewhen Tutankhamun took the throne. Palace intrigue, though was never so simple. In the years since his exile, Huy ...
The numbers are small. Scattered across the landscape that was Nazi Germany, the Resistance looks puny: too little, too late. Yet, in the context of a police state, it assumes larger proportions. For those who have never known life under such a regime, it's hard to grasp the daily terror that mak...
Chapter Eight – Holding On As soon as he had the news, Sas communicated it to his own authorities and to Colonel Goethals. At midnight he received a lightly coded message from The Hague to enquire if there really were to be no change in the arrangements for ‘the operation on your wife’. Sas t...
Like everywhere else, business was slow, and he whiled away his time standing in his doorway, watching the world go by. The young woman had caught his attention two days earlier. At first, he’d taken her for just another Japanese tourist trying to find her way to the old town – either she must ha...
She lay on her back on a wooden trestle table which stood under a palm leaf awning in the shady corner of a broad courtyard in the Place of Healing. They had placed linen wadding soaked in water around her to keep her body cool, but despite the attentions of the attendants there was no stopping t...