The Labyrinth of Osiris

Paul Sussman

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012 - Fiction - 552 pages

Detective Arieh-Ben Roi of the Jerusalem police is tasked with the investigation into the death of a well-known Israeli journalist, Rivka Kleinberg, who is found brutally murdered in a cathedral in Jerusalem. Known for her fearless exposés, Kleinberg had made many high-powered enemies, including international corporations, the Israeli government, and the Russian Mafia. Looking for leads, Ben-Roi begins researching which stories Kleinberg was working on before she died, and finds a connection to Egypt which confuses him.

At a stumbling block, Ben-Roi phones up his old friend, Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police, and asks him if he will help him investigate the case. Khalifa is happy to help, and begins looking into another story that Kleinberg was researching just before her murder: the mysterious death of a British Egyptologist in the 1930s. This Egyptologist was said to have uncovered a giant labyrinth-like gold mine of incredible riches written about in the works of Herodotus. But what connection could this gold mine have with Kleinberg's murder?

With a plot that moves from Israel to Egypt to Vancouver to Romania, The Labyrinth of Osiris is an intelligent, gripping novel from an internationally acclaimed master of thriller writing.

About the author

Paul Sussman was born in 1968. He received a history degree from Cambridge University. He began his professional writing career as feature writer and film editor for The Big Issue Magazine. He also wrote a weekly column entitled In the News. Some of the columns were collected in his first book, Death by Spaghetti. He wrote primarily fiction books including The Lost Army of Cambyses, The Last Secret of the Temple, The Hidden Oasis, and The Labyrinth of Osiris. As a freelance journalist, he also wrote articles for The Guardian, The Independent, The Evening Standard, The Daily Express, CNN.com, and other publications. He worked extensively as a field archaeologist, particularly in Egypt. In 1998, he worked with the Amarna Royal Tombs Project, which was the first expedition to dig new ground in the Valley of the Kings since the discovery of Tutankhamun in 1922. He died after suffering a ruptured aneurysm on May 31, 2012 at the age of 45.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Labyrinth of Osiris; Volume 3 of Yusuf Khalifa
• Author: Paul Sussman
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0802120415, 9780802120410
• Length: 552 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Thrillers / General; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense