Warner Books Edition

EDITOR'S NOTE A brief explanation of Arabic and ancient Egyptian terms may be in order for the benefit of readers unfamiliar with those languages. Like certain other Semitic scripts, Arabic and hieroglyphic Egyptian do not write the vowels. It is for this reason that English spellings of such...

Chapter OneI The refrigerator was late. Colonel O'Rourke at the ; PX in Vogelweh had promised an early-afternoon ' delivery. Now, with only fifteen minutes before the entire von Kelsing entourage was scheduled to leave for midnight mass at the Düsseldorf Cathedral, the only Christmas gift Werner...

The box was a mystery, and for that reason it was the most exciting gift Mary had ever received.Her friends looked at it, then at one another, unsure of what they should say. "Open it, Mary," exclauned one, trying to sound enthusiastic."Not yet," Mary said. She stroked the stained, battered old...