false 66517 16 <I>He Shall Thunder in the Sky</I> completes an internal quartet (which also includes <I>Seeing a Large Cat</I>, <I>The Ape Who Guards the Balance</I>, and <I>The Falcon at the Portal</I>) within Elizabeth Peters's legendary series starring Amelia Peabody, the intrepid Edwardian Egyptologist, her husband, Emerson, and her extended family. The quartet comprises not only Amelia's diary of those years but also parts of a mysterious "Manuscript H," an omniscient viewpoint that allows a glimpse into the minds of Amelia's son--the dashing and brilliant Ramses--and her ward, Nefret Forth, as they mature into adults with their own secrets and agendas. <I>The Falcon at the Portal</I> left readers hanging impatiently in the enormous rift that book's events gouged between Ramses and Nefret, both madly in love but unrelentingly proud. <p> The winter of 1914-15 finds the Peabody-Emerson family back in Cairo--now under British martial law, with the Suez Canal under constant threat of attack from the Ottoman Empire. The city's young Englishmen are rushing to enlist, except for Ramses, who is widely scorned for his pacifism. Yet Amelia and Emerson soon find out that Ramses is (literally) playing a mysterious and potentially explosive part in the conflict between Egyptian nationalists and the British authorities, for reasons both political and familial. Nefret, for her part, is still running a health clinic for the city's fallen women and trying to avoid the attentions of Percy, Amelia's odious nephew. In the meantime, the Emersons' excavations at Giza reveal an unexpected treasure so remarkable that the uneasy Amelia immediately senses the fine hand of Sethos, the Master Criminal (who through many previous books has alternately plagued her and protested his boundless affection for her), at work. The climax and denouement are entirely worth the price of admission--tying up a decade's worth of loose strings and explaining some nagging points so subtle that less observant readers might easily have missed them. It's Peters's great gift that in the grand scheme of things, no clues are wasted. Her plotting is wonderfully complex and intriguing, and it fits seamlessly into the detailed historical background she builds so carefully. It may have taken years for her to complete this four-part dance (she promises more Amelia Peabody mysteries in the future), but she's charmed us right out of our dancing slippers along the way. <I>--Barrie Trinkle</I> 3287813 2000 He Shall Thunder in the Sky (Amelia Peabody, #12) total:1363|5:548|4:554|3:231|2:24|1:6| 1363 5703 1663 61 126738 0788748505 9780788748509 3 2 4.18 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126738.He_Shall_Thunder_in_the_Sky 5 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 22:48:46 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 22:56:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 66517 0380798581 9780380798582 1298 50 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170652222m/66517.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66517.He_Shall_Thunder_in_the_Sky 4 0 false Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 17:19:47 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 08:04:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 157859 0380976595 9780380976591 34 6 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172267890m/157859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157859.He_Shall_Thunder_in_the_Sky 5 1 false Sun Jun 10 16:25:39 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 11 13:52:31 -0700 2007 This book deserves 6 stars
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