The Exodus Quest (31 page)
Authors: Will Adams
Tags: #Fiction - General, #Adventure fiction, #Suspense, #Thrillers, #Excavations (Archaeology), #Action & Adventure, #English Mystery & Suspense Fiction, #Thriller, #Dead Sea scrolls, #General, #Archaeologists, #Fiction - Espionage, #Egypt, #Fiction
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The theory that Moses and the Exodus might somehow be connected to the reign of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten has been around for decades, most famously advocated by Sigmund Freud in his work
Moses and Monotheism
. But the possible link between Akhenaten’s capital city at Amarna and the Essene settlement of Qumran is a more recent development, stirringly advocated by the British metallurgist Robert Feather in his book ‘
The Copper Scroll Decoded
’, a fascinating read for all fans of Egyptian history.
Many people helped me with this book, both in Egypt and in England, and I’m very grateful to them all. But I would particularly like to thank my agent Luigi Bonomi and my editor Wayne Brookes for their unfailing support, insight, enthusiasm and advice, without which writing would be a much harder job than it already is.
About the Author
THE EXODUS QUEST
Will Adams has tried his hand at a multitude of careers over the years. Most recently, he worked for a London-based firm of communications consultants before giving it up to pursue his lifelong dream of writing fiction. His first novel,
The Alexander Cipher
, is about a modern-day quest to find the lost tomb of Alexander the Great. A top-twenty UK bestseller, it has been translated into thirteen languages.
The Exodus Quest
is his second novel.
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Copyright
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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