Author(s): Anthony O'Neill

Fiction

The Chamber of Eternity is said to contain a hieroglyphic chart of the future, the meaning of life and the secrets of immortality. For thousands of years it has been sought by emperors, kings, caliphs and popes, but its site is fiercely guarded; its existence defended by preposterous rumours and outright lies. In 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte launches an ambitious expedition to Egypt to locate the mysterious vault. In the heart of the Great Pyramid the chambers secrets are revealed to him by an enigmatic mystic the Red Man. Buoyed by revelations of a phenomenal destiny, Napoleon returns to Paris and becomes Emperor of France. As his fame escalates he begins to question the meeting in the Great Pyramid, the accuracy of the chambers prophecies, the existence of the Red Man and his own sanity. Forty years later Queen Victoria becomes infatuated with the legend. She recruits Alexander Rhind, a modest young Scottish archaeologist, to infiltrate the Brotherhood of Eternity. But Rhind himself becomes seduced by tales of the chamber; he too is compelled by the possibility of answers among the ruins, both grand and intimate, which can only be discerned in person. With its cast of emperors, popes, queens, generals, sheikhs, artists and archaeologists every one of them real The Empire of Eternity is a brilliant and pacy novel about the mysteries of the great tombs, the hidden secrets of the gods and mans desire to possess them at all costs.