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Warlock

Title:

Warlock

Author:

Smith, Wilbur A.

ISBN:

9780333761342

9780330450928

9780330449946

Personal Author:

Smith, Wilbur A.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

693 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

General Note:

Originally published : London : Macmillan, 2001.

Abstract:

"Hidden away in the vast and forbidding deserts of North Africa, Taita has passed the years since the death of his beloved Queen Lostris in prayer and study. He has become the Warlock, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods, an adept of magic and the supernatural." "Now Taita answers the summons from the beyond. He leaves the desert vastness and returns to the world of men, to find himself plunged into a terrible conflict against the forces of evil which threaten to overwhelm the throne and the realm of Egypt, and to destroy the young prince Nefer who is the grandson of Queen Lostris."--Jacket.

Subject Term:

Warlocks -- Fiction.

Adventure stories.

Pharaohs -- Fiction.

Burial -- Africa, North -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Africa, North -- Fiction.

Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city) -- Fiction.

Egypt -- History -- To 332 B.C. -- Fiction.

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Summary

Set in Egypt Warlock follows on from River God and The Seventh Scroll, marking the return of the world's finest adventure writer. After the death of his beloved Queen Lostris, Taita performs the rites of embalmment and burial for her. Then stricken with grief, he retreats into the forbidding deserts of North Africa where he becomes a hermit. Over the years that follow he devotes himself to the study of the mysteries of the occult until, armed with these extraordinary powers, he gradually transforms himself into the Warlock. When he is called upon to save the dynasty of Queen Lostris from the clouds of evil that loom over Egypt, he discovers that there has, after all, been a divine purpose in his bereavement and suffering...