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MediaDB / «Empire of Eternity" by Anthony O'Neill: download fb2, read online
About the book: 2008 / 1798. General Napoleon Bonaparte makes his famous campaign in Egypt. The secret goal of the future Emperor of France is the palace of eternity, a chamber hidden in a pyramid where the greatest treasure on earth is kept - the book of human destinies, which grants immortality to man. Forty years later. Scotsman Alexander Rind receives a secret assignment from Queen Victoria of England to infiltrate an underground community of archaeologists called the Brotherhood of Eternity. The information that the agent manages to obtain shocks him so much that he, on his own initiative, undertakes an expedition to the land of the pharaohs. Immortality! Is there anything more valuable in the world both for the powers that be and for mere mortals??