Amara: A chilling and riveting horror novel

US: Headline, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. AMARA, Princess of Egypt, the once-beautiful wife of Mentuhotep the First, lies in her coffin in the Charles Ward museum. Dead these 4000 years, now s he's just an inanimate bundle of withered skin and desiccated bone. Or is s he? When Barney the nightwatchman, discovers that the mummy's coffin has been b roken open, it seems grave-robbers are at work, out to steal valuable artef acts, just as their kind have done for centuries. It's a pity Barney and th e guards can't tell the authorities how the mummy came to be missing. But t he dead can't testify to anything. Now Amara is free again, driven by an ancient need that can only be assuaged at the cost of human life. No one can oppose her, no bullet can stop her and nothing can kill her - for she is dead already.