{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The Gods blessed Lieutenant Bak, head of the Medjay police, with a rare brilliance -- which is why he is the one to whom his commander turns in a time of need. The explorer Minnakht has vanished into the vast and merciless Egyptian desert -- or perhaps has strayed perilously close to Queen Maatkare Hatshepsut's well-guarded turquoise mines -- and before Bak sails north on a new assignment he is to seek out the missing man. But evil is traveling with him and his Medjays in the caravan they accompany eastward. Someone -- or something -- is responsible for the strange rash of deaths that is rapidly thinning the numbers of their fellow travelers. A straightforward search for a missing adventurer becomes a twisted knot of treachery and blood -- one that threatens to strangle the life from Bak and his men and leave them buried for all eternity beneath the blistering sands."}, "title": "A path of shadows", "covers": [27069], "subject_places": ["Egypt"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "History", "Mystery", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Egypt, fiction", "Bak, lieutenant (fictitious character), fiction"], "key": "/works/OL553661W", "authors": [{"type": "/type/author_role", "author": {"key": "/authors/OL40655A"}}], "subject_times": ["To 332 B.C."], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-08T05:07:10.796818"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-12-26T13:52:41.986376"}}