All Roads Lead To The River

By Lee McAulay

Louis Beauregard, Victorian adventurer, has caroused his way around the Grand Tour with poets and playboys. Now he finds himself travelling through Egypt, in disguise, in the company of two of his era's most famous explorers. A strange dog follows them through the desert, then vanishes when they reach the Great Pyramid at Gizeh, and Louis faces a choice he has long been avoiding.

With a disturbing insight into the mysteries of the Pharaohs, what Louis discovers by the banks of the Nile will change his life forever.

A standalone short story set 38 years before the events of the novel, "The Last Rhinemaiden".

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lee McAulay
• Release date: Apr 14, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458042545

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All Roads Lead To The River

by Lee McAulay

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ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE RIVER

The night before he first beheld the Nile, Louis Beauregard slept in the Libyan desert on the plateau above Giza, tense with anticipation, listening to dogs whining far off in the darkness under the crackling stars.

In the firelit encampment the Arab couriers broke their Ramadan fast and retired to their tents while the three Englishmen, Louis and Smyth and Petherick, sat by the fire talking over their plans for the following day, and beyond. When the other two left for their own