5,200 years ago, as this 6th book of the Raising Up Pharaoh epic begins, King Patros explores the Nile with allied ships, while his enemy, King Reptor of Bhator, prepares to conquer northern Reilend. At the same time, the scout fleet sails up the Red Sea toward Ezion-Geber in 120 large ships, carrying thousands more people seeking to join King Patros' new nation on the Nile. The allied cities are gathering at Askleumon for the memorial games dedicated to their creator god, while mounted camel scouts race south to track the movements of Bhator. A clash of these large armies and navies can't be avoided-Bhator's aggression will light the fire. After the fight, there will be one dominant power, either Bhator's king or the allies' god. Thus concludes the six-novel Raising Up Pharaoh epic, set among the emerging city-states and nations in the Fertile Crescent at the dawn of written history-as they plant the cultural seeds of today's world. The series is written for readers of all ages. The tone is intense, yet controlled by zooming back the lens to avoid needless close-ups of violence and sexuality. The tale unfolds through the differing viewpoints of the orphans, the couple, others drawn to them, and their foes. The setting of this sixth book is contained within the area bounded by what is now called the eastern Mediterranean, Aegean and Black Seas, Steppes, Caspian and Aral Seas, Hindu Kush, Indus Valley, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, headwaters of the Nile to its Delta-virtually all of the Middle East and much of Northeast Africa. The maps for this book integrate prior maps in the Raising Up Pharaoh series. The diverse cast speaks a pidgin of proto-Indo-European, proto-Afro-Semitic, and various lost languages such as Harappan. The pidgin is presented in modern U.S. English. The Raising Up Pharaoh novels were edited by Dr. Dennis E. Hensley PhD.
About the Author: R. E. J. Burke is a former U. S. Marine, graduate of the University of Maryland and Yale Graduate School, aeronautical engineer, shipbuilder, banker, entrepreneur, author, pilot, and Christian speaker. His passion is the archaeology of the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age in South and West Asia, the Steppes, Eastern Europe, and Northeastern Africa, which led to his writing the six-novel Raising Up Pharaoh epic. Having lived in Asia, South America, the U.S. Midwest and on both coasts, he and his wife, Nancy, now live on the bluffs by the Potomac River in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. They have four adult children and six grandchildren, for whom they are very thankful. His favorite authors are Patrick O'Brian, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Dickens, Bernard Cornwell, C. S. Lewis, and Stephen R. Donaldson.