Manuscripts of the Richards' Trust Series

Egyptologist Joseph Richards stumbled across something that simply set his mind ablaze. His hypothesis was so contrary that if it became public his banishment from the academic world would be assured. Simultaneously, highly classified evidence lent credence to Richard’s position, which ultimately allowed him and his partner Gregorieva to venture back farther in time than any had ever attempted before – all in search of a man named Ptah. Meanwhile, there are others who secretly covet the Soap Bubble technology, who are willing to do whatever it takes to get it, and who even tried to steal it - twice. Children of Ptah. The Third Manuscript of the Richards’ Trust completes the temporal adventure trilogy of Professor Joseph Richards.

During the early 1990s, an Austrian Egyptologist found a hidden doorway beneath the Step Pyramid Complex at Sakkara. Little did he realize that he had discovered not only one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of Egyptology, but also an alien artifact that was meant to be shared with all mankind. And Egyptologist and temporal field agent Joseph Richards knows who gave it to us. Then, in 2010, an Iranian agent catches wind of a conversation at an international congress that led him to conclude that the two Great Satans, the Americans and Russians, have traveled back in history – many times. As a consequence, the Iranians, wishing to mold the course of Western History for Islam’s benefit, stole from Horizon Pass the plans of their temporal device – the Soap Bubble. With their own temporal device operational, the Iranians send an assassination team back to the eighth century to alter a macro-historical event. Learning of this, Horizon Pass sends back their own team of Gregorieva and Richards to foil the attempt. You now hold the Fourth Manuscript of the Richards’ Trust, which has been authorized for publication by the posthumous wishes of Egyptologist Joseph William Richards.

Not until the evidence was uncovered by tomb robbers in the 1870s would we have ever known. Then with the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in the 1920s, even more hints beckoned readily at hand. But as with so many things in life, critical clues often go unnoticed until science, accident, and intrigue collide. That collision was initiated by a Polish archaeologist who received permission to collect DNA samples from a group of royal mummies at the Cairo National Museum in 1973. A tragic victim of the Yom Kippur War, his samples sat dormant gathering dust until they were found and processed in 1998. Meanwhile during the early 1970s an international team noticed, while x-raying the same mummy collection, some extremely unexpected physiological details among several of them. As with the radiological data, the chromosomal evidence proved to be equally disquieting. When taken together, they argued for the introduction of a unique genetic anomaly into the human genome during the Egyptian late Eighteenth Dynasty. The source was extraterrestrial. Bow Tie chronicles how an international scientific effort resolved the situation by using a most unusual means for prosecuting a most unscrupulous task – time travel and murder. This is the first manuscript published by the Richards’ Trust in accordance with the posthumous wishes of Egyptologist Joseph William Richards, Ph.D. "...an Indiana Jones meets Dr. Who-style adventure that is every bit as wild as it appears on the surface." "...the story can prove a wordy slog at times, though it does so in the tradition of sci-fi adventure writers like Michael Crichton." --Kirkus Review

On July 15, 1359 BC a distress call was transmitted into deep space... On Christmas Eve AD 321, relatively speaking, the distress call was received and a salvage crew dispatched... On March 24, 1965 an anomaly was first detected by the Ranger IX spacecraft and was subsequently confirmed by the Orbiter I and III platforms... On November 11, 1969 the anomaly was recovered by NASA’s Apollo XII crew... On May 13, 1994 a new asteroid, a NEA – a near-Earth asteroid, was first detected inbound from deep space... The word recovery is indeed one pregnant with meaning and in the final analysis one must ask: who truly is recovering what? Recovery continues the temporal adventures of Egyptologist Joseph Richards. This is the second manuscript published by the Richards’ Trust in accordance with the posthumous wishes of Joseph William Richards, Ph.D.

My Cyrillic-English identification badge read: VESNA BORISEVNA GREGORIEVA TEMPORAL FIELD AGENT, NR. 3 RUSSIAN-AMERICAN ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE That I was only the third such temporal field agent pleased me greatly, almost as much as I had succeeded my mentor Alexander Andreovich Piankoff. I, with my American counterpart, was tasked with preserving our current reality. And to make a very long story short, I have been busy. First, as Maatkare in ancient Egypt, we executed a dangerously psychotic alien hybrid posing as a pharaoh. Then, as Lieutenant Valerie Gregg in Philadelphia, we failed to rescue four lost seamen in 1942. Finally, as Veer “the Bloody” in eighth century France, our team stopped an Iranian attempt to alter the course of Western European Civilization. Like I said, I have been busy. But as anyone will tell you, they never forget their first unassisted ride on a bicycle, or for that matter, their first love. So it was for me, that first drop into the somewhen was, well, quite, quite memorable. After all, we were only sent to assassinate a minor pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. What possibly could go wrong?

It all began with a catastrophic engine failure... A desperate crash landing... A satellite that found the impact site... Temporal field agents were sent back... Where they witnessed the impact and discovered so much more... Did a meteor impact kill a pharaoh? It all began with an engine failure that led to a crash landing. The event and its aftermath were chronicled by two ancient Egyptian hieratic papyri. The satellite discovery of the impact site prompted the dispatch of Dr. Joseph Richards, Vesna Gregorieva, and Colonel Cartwright’s security team to the scene. What they found was more than they bargained for. Based upon that present-day foray into the Egyptian desert, a temporal drop of a purely scientific nature was approved. Once on the scene, Richards and Gregorieva witness the impact and discover so much more. Iron from the Sky is the last book of award-winning series, The Manuscripts of the Richards’ Trust. For those faithful readers of the five book series, the content of this book falls between book two—Recovery, and book three—The Children of Ptah.