The Seventh Scroll and Gold Mine - Wilbur Smith

THE SEVENTH SCROLL

A fading legacy from beyond the grave, the Seventh Scroll holds the clues to a fabulous treasure from an almost forgotten time.

Duraid Al Simmu and his beautiful half-English, half-Egyptian wife, Royan, were the first to discover the tomb of Queen Lostris, and with it the scrolls on which the wily Taita recorded the burial of Pharaoh Mamose with all his vast treasure. Their search moves from the Nile to the uplands of Ethiopia, and a savage battle begins to unlock the Pharaoh’s secrets. For others will stop at nothing to gain the prize as their own.

GOLD MINE

Rod Ironsides, an ambitious and hard-living mining expert, knows that the general-managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price, unquestionable obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner, proves impossible to pay. Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people – for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of the realization of dreams and ambitions that include the destruction of the mine itself.