Shot by Lord Dasheart and saved from certain death by Queen Kiya and her unlikely friends, Ethan, Isaac, and India, and soon after escaping from prison, Billy, Duffy, and Marie-Ange, sail north to Albany. The gateway to the Adirondack Mountains and a meeting on midsummer morning with the Indian princess Pale Moon in the Morning, they hope will find the third piece of the Rebus of Akhenaten. And are helped by Madeleine Corbeau, Pierre’s twin sister, who in defiance of Montard’s strict instructions gives Billy the Totem of Tarhuhiawaku, which is vital to finding it. But it is a trap they only escape with the help of Tom and Polly, who bring news from the past that changes the future, not least Kiya’s realisation of the truth that has blinded her.
With two pieces of the Rebus of Akhenaten now in his possession and with information he hopes will find a third in North America, and the remaining six where they have long been hidden, Billy, and his crew sail to New York. Arriving a month later he sets out to find Lauder Trompe, who has information vital to his mission. But before the day is done, Tom and Polly fall from a precipitous cliff in the Cave of Tarhuhiawaku and find themselves two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand years in the past, where they meet Gabe, one of the Nanochromes of Nogoback, but more importantly, meet Ethan, Isaac and India from present day Kips Bay, New York, who, unbeknown to them, have been their companions in their quest from almost the beginning.
Escaping from Captain Bauda and his Cuirassiers, Billy sets out to rescue his boat crew, captured, and imprisoned by Pierre Corbeau, but he is betrayed by Charlotte Desmoulin, one of the fugitives and must now fight a much more dangerous battle against the Drummers. The army of the living dead, Montard has sent to capture and kill her servant, Marie-Ange le Dantec, who, has in her possession, a piece of the Rebus, as he too, discovers, he has! But, as the battle overwhelms him, Queen Kiya, the wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten and mother of Tutankhamun, comes from the past to rescue Polly, her sister, the princess Tefnut and turns her power against him and would have killed him, had it not been for Lemmy, the ghost of the Parrot.
Unaware, they have been followed to Brittany’s magical and mysterious Quiberon Peninsula by Pierre Corbeau, an agent of the Count de Montard, Billy, Tom and Polly meet the enigmatic professor Tollendal and learn their real quest is to find the Rebus of Akhenaten. A picture puzzle of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs inscribed on a round gold plate made of nine parts, which, when deciphered, will show where the Pharaoh Akhenaten hid the great horde of treasure he took from the Priests of Amun-Ra in 1336BCE. A plate the secret society of Templar Knights, he leads, who found it on Jerusalem’s, Temple Mount in 1128 and then lost it in 1307, believe is an engine, machine, or device so powerful, whosoever possesses it will rule the world.
.....'Yes, Billy, the password, Lieutenant Galbraith gave to you before you left England?''Yes … of course,' he stammered, 'the password … the password is ….. Who can tell the hiding place of the nine? Yes, that is it, Marie Ange. Who can tell the hiding place of the nine?'Four can tell the hiding place of the nine,' she answered.'Who can tell the hiding place of the nine?' repeated Billy, without hesitation.'Three can tell the hiding place of the nine,' came her quick reply.'Who can tell the hiding place of the nine?' asked Billy, a third time.'Two can tell the hiding place of the nine,' she replied, her two spread hands pressed flat across her chest, as if to stop her heart exploding with excitement.'Who can tell the hiding place of the nine?' asked Billy, a fourth and last time, as the mysterious Lieutenant Galbraith had insisted he must.'One and only one can tell the hiding place of the nine,' answered Marie-Ange and with such a thrill of pleasure, it brought squeals of delight and great hugs and kisses of congratulations from Tom and Polly, as if she had won a contest, which in an odd way she had.And so begins an adventure in the vastness of space and time which leads Lieutenant William 'Billy' Kepple, Tom (not her real name), Polly, Marie-Ange and the crew of HMS Parrot in search of the Rebus of Akhenaten, a picture puzzle inscribed on a gold plate. A plate made of nine separate pieces which show where the Pharaoh Akhenaten hid the great horde of treasure he took from the Priest of Amun-Ra in 1336BC. A treasure the secret society of Templar Knights who found it on Jerusalem's Temple Mount in 11128AD say is an engine, machine or device so powerful whosoever possesses it will rule the world.The Bottomless Well of Time is the first book in a series of six books called The Rebus and the Parrot. Book Two, The Secret of the Chateau Tollendal will be published in April 2013.C R Searle, 2013 Further information about this fascinating series can be found on: www.TheSwordAndShieldOfAten.com
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