The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The first adventure in the series about the gods of Ancient Egypt from the bestselling author of Percy Jackson

Name: The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The first adventure in the series about the gods of Ancient Egypt from the bestselling author of Percy Jackson
Rating: 4.565517425537109 (145 reviews)

Rick Riordan

May 2010 · The Kane Chronicles Book 1 · Penguin UK

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The Red Pyramid: the first book in Rick Riordan's The Kane Chronicles.

Percy Jackson fought Greek Gods. Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world...

'I GUESS IT STARTED THE NIGHT OUR DAD BLEW UP THE BRITISH MUSEUM . . .'

CARTER AND SADIE KANE'S dad is a brilliant Egyptologist with a secret plan that goes horribly wrong. An explosion shatters the ancient Rosetta stone and unleashes Set, the evil god of chaos . . .

Set imprisons Dr Kane in a golden coffin and Carter and Sadie must run for their lives. To save their dad, they embark on a terrifying quest from Cairo to Paris to the American South-west and discover the truth about their family's connection to the House of Life: an Egyptian temple of magic that has existed for thousands of years.

The pharaohs of ancient Egypt are far from dead and buried. And neither, unfortunately, are their gods . . .

Rick Riordan has now sold an incredible 55 million copies of his books worldwide

Praise for the Percy Jackson series:

'Witty and inspired. Gripping, touching and deliciously satirical...This is most likely to succeed Rowling. Puffin is on to a winner' - Amanda Craig, The Times

'Puns, jokes and subtle wit, alongside a gripping storyline' - Telegraph

'Perfectly paced, with electrifying moments chasing each other like heartbeats' - New York Times

Discover more books and series by Rick Riordan:

The Kane Chronicles:

The Red Pyramid
The Throne of Fire
The Serpent's Shadow

The Percy Jackson series
The Heroes of Olympus series
The Trials of Apollo series
The Camp Half-Blood series
The Magnus Chase Series

Rick Riordan is an award-winning mystery writer. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife and two sons. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief was the overall winner of the Red House Children's Book Award in 2006.

The Red Pyramid: the first book in Rick Riordan's The Kane Chronicles. Percy Jackson fought Greek Gods. Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world... 'I GUESS IT STARTED THE NIGHT OUR DAD BLEW UP THE BRITISH MUSEUM . . .' CARTER AND SADIE KANE'S dad is a brilliant Egyptologist with a se...

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145 reviews

Mohanakrishnan Giridharan

January 19, 2015

Vry gud buk wit a thrilling plot..lots of twists n turns at end bt too many subplots jus lik pj series bt still really a very gud buk..worth readin

1 person found this review helpful

Erin

July 3, 2013

The action is almost all the time, and the world in the book is very interesting. The characters are awesome and the plot is good. There is also a lot of real life info in it. Definitely worth a read.

4 people found this review helpful

Nilima Hadi

April 3, 2013

I really enjoyed this book. There is humour, action and a fast - paced rhythm to this novel. I love how rick has used the same features that he used when writing the percy jackson series which makes this series one of my favourite along with percy jackson, the heroes of olympus and harry potter.

9 people found this review helpful

About the author

Rick Riordan, dubbed 'storyteller of the gods' by Publishers Weekly, is the author of five New York Times number-one bestselling book series with millions of copies sold throughout the world: Percy Jackson, the Heroes of Olympus and the Trials of Apollo, based on Greek and Roman mythology; the Kane Chronicles, based on Egyptian mythology; and Magnus Chase, based on Norse mythology. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Rick's first novel featuring the heroic young demigod, won the Red House Children's Book Award and is now a blockbuster film franchise starring Logan Lerman.

To learn more about Rick and his books, you can visit him at www.rickriordan.co.uk or follow him on Twitter @camphalfblood.

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