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The Murder of King Tut
The Plot to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller

by James Patterson & Martin Dugard
Read by Joe Barrett

     

The Murder of King Tut is the newest foray into the field of homicide by James Patterson. For once, history reads like one of Patterson’s novels. It keeps you engrossed from beginning to end. This is one story I didn’t want to stop listening to, no matter how late the hour. This is the first time history has intrigued me so much that I couldn’t find a dull place to stop reading—or listening, as in my case.

Perhaps we all remember the story of the young boy king, Tutenkhamen, whose tomb Howard Carter found in 1923. He had felt the tomb was there in spite of the fact that an American named Davis had claimed to have found it earlier. However, although Davis had indeed found some objects bearing Tutankhamen's seal in a tomb, it was not Tutankhamen's tomb. Carter had spent thirty years in the Valley of the Kings without finding the thing that most archaeologists dreamed of finding: the undisturbed tomb of a pharaoh. It had long been known that grave robbers had removed most of the golden statues and other valuables that usually accompanied the burial of a pharaoh. However, archaeologists still dreamed of finding a tomb that had not been disturbed.

Not only does the book contain the story of finding the tomb, it also tells the story of Tutenkhamen’s life and death in great detail. It also solves the murder—as to who did it and why. The end of this story is most surprising. It is what’s in the middle of that story that makes it break one’s heart: Tutenkhamen married his sister, and she also died. It is a riveting tale to which I think everyone should listen. Pick up a copy of The Murder of King Tut, and spend a lovely day going back in time.

The Book

Hachette Audio
September 28, 2009
Audio Book / 5 CDs / Appx 6 hours / Unabridged
1600246354 / 978-1600246357
Nonfiction / History
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Excerpt
NOTE: contains violence, sexual situations

The Reviewer

Jo Rogers
Reviewed 2009
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