Title: Ah well...
Review: It is true, "Sphinx" is an enjoyable book. It is a quick read and Cook obviously took great care to portray ancient Egypt correctly. Only cynics would say he lets some of his books take place where he had his last vacation. Anyway, opening the story by letting it start during the time of the construction of the pyramids themselves was a great idea.Now to the bad point, which reoccurs in just about all of Cook's novels: coincidences. How plausible is it that our main protagonist, an egyptologist, gets lost in Cairo, stumbles into an antiques store which just at that time has a golden statue of Seti I, whose value is so high it is undeterminable, in its back room and whose owner gets assassinated for having the statue just as our brave egyptologist is at the place? I bet Cook could have come up with something better to get the otherwise nice plot together at the beginning.But again, "Sphinx" is an enjoyable book and far above some of the other works Cook publishes nowadays.
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