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Title: The Search for the Lost Army

Subtitle: The National Geographic and Harvard University Expedition

Author: Gary S. Chafetz

Narrator: Tom Kruse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-15

Publisher: Bettie Youngs Book Publishers Co., Inc.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In one of history's greatest ancient disasters, a Persian army of 50,000 soldiers was suffocated by a hurricane-force sandstorm in 525 BC in Egypt's Western Desert. No trace of this conquering army, hauling huge quantities of looted gold and silver, has ever surfaced. Nearly 25 centuries later on October 6, 1981, Egyptian Military Intelligence, the CIA, and Israel's Mossad secretly orchestrated the assassination of President Anwar Sadat, hoping to prevent Egypt's descent - as had befallen Iran two years before - into the hands of Islamic zealots. Because he had made peace with Israel and therefore had become a marked man in Egypt and the Middle East, Sadat had to be sacrificed to preserve the status quo. These two distant events become intimately interwoven in the story of Alex Goodman, who defeats impossible obstacles as he leads a Harvard University/National Geographic Society archaeological expedition into Egypt's Great Sand Sea in search of the Lost Army of Cambyses, the demons that haunt him, and the woman he loves.

Based on a true story.

Members Reviews:

Strong on Adventure and Weak on Romance, but Who Cares?

I liked this book because of its quick pace and fascinating historic and adventure story lines. Chafetz is clearly an excellent researcher; and the parts that were pure fiction fit in well with the broader tale of the Lost Army and his view of Egyptian politics. Just as clearly, he is either less skilled or--more likely--less interested in and impatient about writing the love story and the hero's back story; and this shows throughout the book. Still, as the Great Gatsby said, those parts are "only personal"; and I can read the romantic genre anywhere. This book made me want to know more about the Lost Army, Persian history, and the era encompassing 525 BC.

A very exciting book...worth the stellar reviews:

This book has "special" reviews...a good idea of what a solid and exciting this is.

"A rousing mix of fact and fantasy that creates an illusion of reality through the specificity of its detail--historical and imaginative. A great adventure story." --Daniel Aaron, author of The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War (a National Book Award finalist), is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of English and American Literature Emeritus at Harvard University; the founding president of the Library of America; and the recipient of a 2010 Presidential National Humanities Medal

"Gary Chafetz has woven an extraordinary saga of the doomed Persian Lost Army of 525, BC into the rather suspect "assassination" of modÂern Egypt's President Anwar Sadat. Part archaeology, part guerilla battles, and part romance, you will find the trials and tribulations of the three principal characters as mesmerizing as any in The Raiders of the Lost Arc films. Truly, a monumental achievement." --Jeremiah Healy is the award-winning (the Shamus Award for best detective fiction) author of 18 novels; and past president of the International Crime Writers Association; past president of Private Eye Writers of America

"An epic, thundering historical thriller.