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* {{Homage}}: ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'' is this to the adventures of Franchise/IndianaJones, particularly ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' — although this story is told (partly) from the perspective of the Marion Ravenwood equivalent, Tara Mullray. Her archaeologist father is dead, and her ex-boyfriend (also an archaeologist, albeit one with a somewhat less-than-clean reputation) shows up and takes her on a quest involving ancient tombs, snakes, an evil German and an archaeological dig happening out in the desert aimed at uncovering an ancient mystery (in this case, the fate of the titular army).
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* {{Homage}}: ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'' is this to the adventures of Franchise/IndianaJones, particularly ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' — although this story is told (partly) from the perspective of the Marion Ravenwood equivalent, Tara Mullray. Her archaeologist father is dead, and her ex-boyfriend (also an archaeologist, albeit one with a somewhat less-than-clean reputation) shows up and takes her on a quest involving ancient tombs, snakes, an Egyptian friend of his who has previously worked for him on digs, an evil German and an archaeological dig happening out in the desert aimed at uncovering an ancient mystery (in this case, the fate of the titular army).
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* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Khalifa's brother Ali]] in ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'', who is in fact [[spoiler: Saif al-Tha'r]]. Turns out, previous references to him being dead actually meant that [[spoiler he was ''dead to'' his younger brother, whose obsession with Saif al-Tha'r is not because he radicalised Ali, but because ''Ali became him'']].
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* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Khalifa's brother Ali]] in ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'', who is in fact [[spoiler: Saif al-Tha'r]]. Turns out, previous references to him being dead actually meant that [[spoiler [[spoiler: he was ''dead to'' his younger brother, whose obsession with Saif al-Tha'r is not because he radicalised Ali, but because ''Ali became him'']].
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* DeadGuyJunior: Yusuf Khalifa's eldest son, Ali, is named after his dead brother.
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* DeadGuyJunior: Yusuf Khalifa's eldest son, Ali, is named after his dead brother. [[spoiler: Who is actually not dead, although he is to all intents and purposes dead to Khalifa]].
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* HappilyMarried: Yusuf and Zenab Khalifa. She has no regrets about marrying a man with less money than the pompous fool her sister married, and they are clearly as in life with each other as they ever were. [[spoiler: In ''The Labyrinth of Osiris '', their love ultimately proves strong enough to keep them and their family together after the death of their son]].
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* {{Homage}}: ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'' is this to the adventures of Franchise/IndianaJones, although this story is told (partly) from the perspective of the Marion Ravenwood equivalent, Tara Mullray — her archaeologist father is dead and her archaeologist ex-boyfriend shows up and takes her on a quest involving ancient tombs, snakes and an evil German.
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* {{Homage}}: ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'' is this to the adventures of Franchise/IndianaJones, particularly ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' — although this story is told (partly) from the perspective of the Marion Ravenwood equivalent, Tara Mullray — her Mullray. Her archaeologist father is dead dead, and her archaeologist ex-boyfriend (also an archaeologist, albeit one with a somewhat less-than-clean reputation) shows up and takes her on a quest involving ancient tombs, snakes and snakes, an evil German.German and an archaeological dig happening out in the desert aimed at uncovering an ancient mystery (in this case, the fate of the titular army).
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* TheReveal: Towards the end of ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'', [[spoiler: Saif al-Tha'r]] is revealed to be [[spoiler: Khalifa's brother Ali]]. It had previously been implied that [[spoiler: Ali had died years before after being radicalised, but instead he actually became Saif al-Tha'r, the most radical Islamic extremist of them all, and dropped his old identity after the massacre in his home village (which he actually perpetrated). Eagle-eyed readers may well be able to spot a couple of early clues that indicate this]].
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* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Khalifa's brother Ali]] in ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'', who is in fact [[spoiler: Saif al-Tha'r]]. Turns out, previous references to him being dead actually meant that [[spoiler he was ''dead to'' his younger brother, whose obsession with Saif al-Tha'r is not because he radicalised Ali, but because ''Ali became him'']].
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* DeadGuyJunior: Yusuf Khalifa's eldest son, Ali, is named after his dead brother.
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** Yusuf Khalifa, who features in four of the novels, sometimes reflects that he ''could'' have been an archaeologist but instead joined the police after studying ancient history at university on the grounds that it offered better job security than the Antiquities Service.
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** Yusuf Khalifa, who features in four of the novels, sometimes reflects that he ''could'' have been an archaeologist but instead joined the police after studying ancient history at university on the grounds that it offered better job security than the Antiquities Service.Service, and he needed to provide for his pregnant wife and widowed mother at the time.
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* CigarChomper: Casper Dravic in ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'', who enjoys stunning his cigars out on his victims.
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** Yusuf Khalifa, who features in four of the novels, sometimes reflects that he ''could'' have been an archaeologist but instead joined the police after studying ancient history at university on the grounds that it offered better job security than the Antiquities Service.
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Daniel Lacage]] in ''The Lost Army of Cambyses''.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Quite a few. ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'', for example, begins with four deaths in suspicious circumstances.
* RecurringCharacter: Detective Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police appears in four novels -- twice as the protagonist, once as a major supporting character and once as a minor character.
* RecurringCharacter: Detective Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police appears in four novels -- twice as the protagonist, once as a major supporting character and once as a minor character.
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: Khalifa sometimes reflects on the similarities between police detective work and archaeology.
* PosthumousCharacter: Quite a few. ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'', for example, begins with four deaths in suspiciouscircumstances.circumstances; two of them are shown shortly before their deaths, and one of those does not become part of the story until the final third of the novel.
* RecurringCharacter: Detective Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police appears in four novels --twice three times as one of the protagonist, once as a major supporting character protagonists, and once as a minor character.character.
* ShoutOut: A story told by [[Literature/TheHistories Herodotus]] forms a major element of ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'', in which the location of said lost army has been discovered, and various interested parties will kill to prevent others from finding out.
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* RecurringCharacter: Detective Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police appears in four novels --
* ShoutOut: A story told by [[Literature/TheHistories Herodotus]] forms a major element of ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'', in which the location of said lost army has been discovered, and various interested parties will kill to prevent others from finding out.
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* AssholeVictim: Abu Nayer, one of several murder victims at the start of ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'' was a drunken wife-beater who owed dozens of people money and dabbled in the illegal trading of antiquities. When Khalifa visits the guy's wife to break the news of his death, her reaction is one of [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing joy]].
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* AssholeVictim: Abu Nayer, one if of several murder victims at the start of ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'' was a drunken wife-beater who owed dozens of people money and dabbled in the illegal trading of antiquities. When Khalifa visits the guy's wife to break the news of his death, her reaction is one of [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing joy]].
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* PosthumousCharacter: Quite a few. ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'', for example, begins four deaths in suspicious circumstances.
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* AssholeVictim: Abu Nayer, one if several murder victims at the start of ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'' was a drunken wife-beater who owed dozens of people money and dabbled in the illegal trading of antiquities. When Khalifa visits the guy's wife to break the news of his death, her reaction is one of joy.[[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing joy]].
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* AncientEgypt: Tends to feature heavily; although most of the novels are set in modern-day Egypt (and elsewhere in the Middle East), the MacGuffin is usually something from ancient times and (parts of) the prologues tend to take place there.
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* AncientEgypt: Tends to feature heavily; although most of the novels are set in modern-day Egypt (and elsewhere in the Middle East), archaeology features heavily, the MacGuffin is usually something from ancient times and (parts of) the prologues tend to take place there.
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* AdventureArchaeologist: Flin Brodie in ''The Hidden Oasis''.
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* AdventureArchaeologist: Flin Brodie in ''The Hidden Oasis''. A professor at the American University in Cairo, he often goes on expeditions to the more remote parts of Egypt.
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* FootballHooligans: Two of the BigBad's mooks in ''The Hidden Oasis'' provide an Egyptian example of this trope. Very much TruthInTelevision, as most Egyptian football teams have groups of ultras among their supporters.
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* FootballHooligans: Two of the BigBad's mooks in ''The Hidden Oasis'' provide an Egyptian example of this trope. trope, being die-hard Al Ahly fans. Very much TruthInTelevision, as most Egyptian football teams have groups of ultras among their supporters.supporters [[note]] two years after that novel was published, Al Ahly's ultras would play a major role in the anti-government protests which eventually brought down the Mubarak government [[/note]].
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* RecurringCharacter: Detective Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police is the protagonist of three novels and a minor character in another.
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* ShownTheirWork: Sussman, who worked as an archaeologist inanother.Egypt for several years, weaves in plenty of archaeological knowledge and a fair amount of Arabic slang.
* ShownTheirWork: Sussman, who worked as an archaeologist in
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* UnreliableNarrator: The title character of ''The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix'', who has lived for the whole length of the twentieth century and wishes to record his own account of that century before killings himself on 1st January 2000 — his hundredth birthday.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: In ''The Hidden Oasis'', Brodie is able to convince the FootballHooligan mooks not to kill him on the grounds that he, like them, is a fan of Al Ahly, one of the top football teams in Egypt. They agree to spare his life as a result.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: In ''The Hidden Oasis'', Brodie is able to convince the FootballHooligan mooks not to kill him on the grounds that he, like them, is a fan of Al Ahly, one of the top football teams in Egypt. They agree to spare his life as a result.
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* FootballHooligans: Two of the BigBad's mooks in ''The Hidden Oasis'' provide an Egyptian example of this trope.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: In ''The Hidden Oasis'', Brodie is able to convince the FootballHooligan mooks not to kill him on the grounds that he, like them, is a fan of Al Ahly, one of the top football teams in Egypt. They agree to spare his life as a result.
* FootballHooligans: Two of the BigBad's mooks in ''The Hidden Oasis'' provide an Egyptian example of this trope. Very much TruthInTelevision, as most Egyptian football teams have groups of ultras among their supporters.
* FootballHooligans: Two of the BigBad's mooks in ''The Hidden Oasis'' provide an Egyptian example of this trope. Very much TruthInTelevision, as most Egyptian football teams have groups of ultras among their supporters.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Yusuf Khalifa and Ari Ben-Roi initially display this when ordered to work together — hardly surprising, given that they are (respectively) Egyptian and Israeli. They get better though, eventually becoming FireForgedFriends.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Yusuf Khalifa and Ari Ben-Roi initially display this when ordered to work together — hardly surprising, given that they are (respectively) Egyptian and Israeli. They get better though, eventually becoming FireForgedFriends.FireForgedFriends.
* UnreliableNarrator: The title character of ''The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix'', who has lived for the whole length of the twentieth century and wishes to record his own account of that century before killings himself on 1st January 2000 — his hundredth birthday.
* UnreliableNarrator: The title character of ''The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix'', who has lived for the whole length of the twentieth century and wishes to record his own account of that century before killings himself on 1st January 2000 — his hundredth birthday.
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* ''The Labyrinth of Osiris'' (June 2012)
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* HistoricalDomainArtefact: The MacGuffin in ''The Last Secret of the Temple'' is the Temple Menorah; in this universe, [[spoiler: the one the Romans took after they destroyed the Second Temple in 70AD was a fake]].
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* AdventureArchaeologist: Often.
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Paul Nicholas Sussman (11 July 1966 – 31 May 2012) was an English author, archaeologist and journalist. His novels, most of which have an archaeological theme, were described by ''The Independent'' as "the intelligent reader's answer to ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode''".
Novels by Paul Sussman:
* ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'' (2002)
* ''The Last Secret of the Temple'' (2005)
* ''The Hidden Oasis'' (2009)
* ''The Labyrinth of Osiris'' (June 2012)
* ''The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix'' (2014)
!!Tropes appearing in his works:
* AdventureArchaeologist: Often.
* FootballHooligans: Two of the BigBad's mooks in ''The Hidden Oasis'' provide an Egyptian example of this trope.
* HistoricalDomainArtefact: The MacGuffin in ''The Last Secret of the Temple'' is the Temple Menorah; in this universe, [[spoiler: the one the Romans took after they destroyed the Second Temple in 70AD was a fake]].
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Yusuf Khalifa and Ari Ben-Roi initially display this when ordered to work together — hardly surprising, given that they are (respectively) Egyptian and Israeli. They get better though, eventually becoming FireForgedFriends.
Novels by Paul Sussman:
* ''The Lost Army of Cambyses'' (2002)
* ''The Last Secret of the Temple'' (2005)
* ''The Hidden Oasis'' (2009)
* ''The Labyrinth of Osiris'' (June 2012)
* ''The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix'' (2014)
!!Tropes appearing in his works:
* AdventureArchaeologist: Often.
* FootballHooligans: Two of the BigBad's mooks in ''The Hidden Oasis'' provide an Egyptian example of this trope.
* HistoricalDomainArtefact: The MacGuffin in ''The Last Secret of the Temple'' is the Temple Menorah; in this universe, [[spoiler: the one the Romans took after they destroyed the Second Temple in 70AD was a fake]].
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Yusuf Khalifa and Ari Ben-Roi initially display this when ordered to work together — hardly surprising, given that they are (respectively) Egyptian and Israeli. They get better though, eventually becoming FireForgedFriends.
