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New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child delivers a riveting thriller about an archaeological dig for King Namer's crown and a centuries-old Egpytian curse. Deep in the "Sudd," a nearly impassable swamp on the Sudanese-Egyptian border, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the burial chamber of King Narmer, the near mythical god-king who united upper and Lower Egypt in 3200 B.C. There is reason to believe that Narmer's crown might be buried with him. No crown of an Egyptian king has ever been discovered, and Narmer's, the elusive "double" crown of the two Egypts, is supposedly possessed of awesome powers. Amid the nightmarish, disorienting tangle of mud and dead vegetation strange things begin to happen. Could the expedition have stumbled upon an ancient curse? Jeremy Logan, a professor of history who has earned an international reputation as an enigmologist--someone who studies and interprets bizarre and inexplicable enigmas and events--is brought onto the project to investigate. What he finds will raise new questions . . . and alarm. About the Author LINCOLN CHILD is the New York Times bestselling author of Terminal Freeze, Deep Storm, Death Match, and Utopia, as well as co-author, with Douglas Preston, of numerous New York Times bestsellers. He lives with his wife and daughter in Morristown, New Jersey.