River God / Eagle in the Sky

River God / Eagle in the Sky

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Wilbur Smith
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RIVER GOD

In the city of Thebes, at the Festival of Osiris, loyal subjects of the Pharaoh gather to pay homage. But Taita, a wise and formidably gifted eunuch slave, sees him only as a symbol of a kingdom's fading glory. Beside Taita stand his protégés: Lostris, daughter of Lord Intef, beautiful beyond her fourteen years; and Tanus, a proud young army officer, who has vowed to avenge the death, at Intef's hand, of his father, and seize Lostris as his prize. Together they share a dream - to restore the majesty of the Pharaoh of Pharaohs on the glittering banks of the Nile.

EAGLE IN THE SKY

Drawn to the sky as through to his natural element, young David Morgan spurns the boardroom future mapped out for him by his family for the life of a jet pilot. Then he meets Debra, the beautiful Israeli writer for whom he will fight in another country's war, at the controls of the his Mirage. Yet the breathless action which brings them together is also the very tragedy that will threaten to tear them apart...