I don't know what I was expecting, but this nonfiction "thriller" from James Patterson and Martin Dugard wasn't it. The book is written in three parts, but changes from part to part by chapter. That can be a bit annoying. The parts are "who killed King Tut, how, and why", "Howard Carter overcomes tremendous obstacles to discover Tut's tomb and gets himself kicked out of Egypt", and "the story of how I 'solved' a 3,000 year old mystery." Yawn. The story of Tut, the boy pharaoh, was interesting when he was placed into the history, especially the religious history, of Ancient Egypt. However, the conjecture--yes, I know that they looked at research and x-rays, etc.--about his death was far-fetched. The most interesting part of the book was the story of how Howard Carter devoted his life to study and excavation in Egypt. In fact, he considered World War I to be a personal inconvenience in that the was drafted and had to leave Egypt for several years. He had failed mission after failed mission in the famed Valley of the Kings and convinced his sponsor to give him one last digging season. And during that season, Tut's tomb was discovered. The portion of the book devoted to James Patterson's great idea to research and write this book and the process that he went through was a fluffy ego piece. All in all, an interesting concept, but the execution was lacking.