El secreto egipcio de Napoleón

Synopsis of El secreto egipcio de Napoleón

«El secreto egipcio de Napoleón» is the historical novel by Javier Sierra, published by Debolsillo in hardback (312 pages, in Spanish).

In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt with more than thirty thousand soldiers, officially to free the country from Turkish rule. He also brought a hundred scholars who explored temples, tombs, mummies and pyramids. The novel investigates what the general was looking for inside the Great Pyramid of Cheops.

The novel was originally published in 2002; this hardback edition from Debolsillo dates from 2006 and has 312 pages.

For readers of historical fiction and mystery thrillers, especially those interested in Ancient Egypt and the figure of Napoleon.