Five centuries after Ramses, the temples of northern Egypt lie deserted, the gods forgotten. Injustice and corruption reign, and the empire seems to be hurtling towards irretrievable ruin.

Only one man, a Nubian, governing his kingdom from the South rejects this dark destiny. Piankhy has only one desire: that the gods should once again dwell in a united Egypt. But the price to pay is a heavy one for this man of peace for he must confront the Libyan Tefnakt, an ambitious and authoritarian northern prince who is
determined to force the country to submit to his will.

War between the Black Pharaoh and the Libyan prince is inevitable.
And the survival of a thousand-year empire hangs on the victory of one of these two inflexible wills...

CHRISTIAN JACQ, the internationally bestselling author of the Ramses series, brilliantly captures the hauntingly romantic atmosphere of Ancient Egypt and its people, in this exciting novel about one of Egypt's lesser known Pharaohs.