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Title: The Book of the DeadAuthor: Douglas Preston / Lincoln Child
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 436
Date read: January, 2012
A brilliant FBI agent, rotting away in a high security prison for a murder he did not commit. His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime.
A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown. An ancient Egyptian tomb about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala, an enigmatic curse released.
I bought this book not knowing that it was the third (or seventh) in a series - I only discovered this when registering it on Goodreads, so it was with some trepidation that I started the book - would I miss too many references, lack too much backstory?
Thankfully, that didn't seem to be the case. Certainly there were references to previous books, but they all seemed nicely explained, so while I may have missed some nuances, it didn't hinder my enjoyment of the plot itself.
The Book of the Dead reads more as a screenplay than as a novel. I caught myself thinking about "that movie I had been watching about the Egyptian grave... oh wait! That's a book!". It employs a lot of cheap tricks and certainly isn't "high literature" in any sense of the word, but it's a quick read and good entertainment.
