The Pharaoh Key
Preston & Child
"Gideon Crew sat in the fourteenth-floor waiting room of Lewis Conrad, MD, restlessly drumming the tips of his left fingers against the back of his right wrist, waiting to find out whether he would live or die."
"Gideon Crew sat in the fourteenth-floor waiting room of Lewis Conrad, MD, restlessly drumming the tips of his left fingers against the back of his right wrist, waiting to find out whether he would live or die."
"The woman who found the body was a widow of around fifty called Ólafía."
"He would not be long for this world."
"For everyone touched by the violence that day, it would never be over."
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