Ophelia,” the butler announced. “I showed him into the parlor.” “Thank you, Bernard.” Ophelia glanced at her bodyguard, mildly surprised that he made no move to accompany the butler. Andrew Whitaker had said fewer than twenty words since his arrival three weeks ago—scarcely enough to identify him...
Her cell phone slipped out of nerveless fingers and fell to the floor with a soft tinkle of plastic. The sound of her phone breaking brought Ophelia back to reality long enough to slide off the bed and go after it, but the pieces were becoming difficult to see as tears flooded her eyes. “No!” she...
Where Heliopolis was a city by reputation, Memphis was one by right. It was ten times the size of any place Josef had ever seen, Kadesh, Megiddo and Heliopolis combined would make a mere suburb of this vast urban sprawl. For the greater part of an hour they’d been passing through outlying village...