TY - BOOK AU - Cussler,Clive AU - Brown,Graham TI - The pharaoh's secret T2 - A Kurt Austin adventure SN - 9780718179878 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2015/// CY - [London] PB - Michael Joseph KW - National Underwater and Marine Agency KW - Fiction KW - Austin, Kurt (Fictitious character) KW - Poisons KW - Marine scientists KW - Action and adventure fiction KW - lcgft N2 - The city of the dead, Egypt 1353 BC. Buried deep beneath the Saharan desert is a secret, an ancient elixir so powerful that it is rumoured to take life from the living and restore it to the dead. Lampedusa, present day. Off a remote island, a mysterious ship releases a deadly poison. Minutes later everyone on the island is dead. Responding to a distress call, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team struggle to understand what has caused this disaster. As they investigate the incident further they uncover a far greater threat. Now Kurt Austin must learn the secrets of the past if he is to save millions from a horrifying death. But it is a desperate race against time. And he faces a deadly enemy who will stop at nothing ER -