City of the Horizon Author:Anton Gill Palace intrigues, the deaths of one-time royal favorites it may sound like Tudor England, but its Egypt during the 18th Dynasty, about 1350 B.C. Akhenaten, the "reformist" pharaoh, has died, and his successor, the child pharaoh Tutankhamun, is effectively controlled by political schemers with no love for Akhenatens old supporte... more »rs, now deemed heretics. Many of these have lost their lives, but Huy, once a scribe in Akhnatens court, is luckier: Hes lost merely his home and the right to practice his trade. In desperation, Huy becomes a sort of traveling troubleshooter, the worlds first private eye. City of the Horizon marks his first case, bringing him up against both Egypts powerful priesthood and a brutal gang of tomb-robbers, all while hes trying to evade the clutches of the secret police. The modern world, it seems, has no monopoly on duplicity and corruption. First U.S. publication« less