by Wilbur Smith
Pharoah sends for Taita, the only man who might be able to win through to the source of the Nile and discover the cause of all their woes. Lots of man-root action, and way too Blavatsky-esque for comfortable reading. No wonder I couldn't recall the storyline here.Re-read encounter drops this down to...
This was probably the worst of the Egyptian novels. It was still good, but it just wasn't up to Smith's general standard.