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Laddar... A Path of Shadowsav Lauren Haney
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The Gods blessed Lieutenant Bak, head of the Medjay police, with a rare brilliance -- which is why he is the one to whom his commander turns in a time of need. The explorer Minnakht has vanished into the vast and merciless Egyptian desert -- or perhaps has strayed perilously close to Queen Maatkare Hatshepsut's well-guarded turquoise mines -- and before Bak sails north on a new assignment he is to seek out the missing man. But evil is traveling with him and his Medjays in the caravan they accompany eastward. Someone -- or something -- is responsible for the strange rash of deaths that is rapidly thinning the numbers of their fellow travelers. A straightforward search for a missing adventurer becomes a twisted knot of treachery and blood -- one that threatens to strangle the life from Bak and his men and leave them buried for all eternity beneath the blistering sands. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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After rereading this entire series I realized that not a single criminal is ever brought to formal trial. They are killed while fleeing or otherwise. So we never see Egyptian justice system in action. I wonder whether Haney didn't have the necessary information about how the judges or courts, punishments, etc. worked, or whether she felt that they were too harsh and arbitrary by contemporary standards. If that were the case the readers might lose sympathy for the protagonist. I mean, imagine trying to have an English thief taker as a protagonist, knowing that the 10 year old boy he has just delivered to the judge may hang for stealing a watch. The Bek series does discuss punishments, such as being sentenced to the desert mines, and impalement as a punishment for treason, but we never see or read of an actual trial. ( )