As an archaeologist who used to head her own archaeology department in the UN, Nina Wilde comes across as extremely uninformed. They do so in a spectacular fashion — by destroying a Lamborghini in the US, smashing up a casino, a multi-million-dollar yacht and disrupting the Formula 1 race in Monaco, and blowing up an army hovercraft in Egypt.Andy McDermott’s archaeologist heroine Nina Wilde is back. But some bad guys are trying to take it out before the digging team actually breaks in.Wilde follows an Indiana Jones-type approach to archaeology where brawn more often than brain gets the job done, the difference being that her husband Eddy provides the brawn. Osir plans to genetically modify the yeast and market lifespan-enhancing products that will make him immortal and the richest person in the world.

As far as credibility goes, Cult of Osiris is, at best, mediocre. But there is more to it. In the book she visits the pyramids for the first time (for a professional archaeologist, that’s unthinkable) and she has to continuously take the help of Macy Sharif for Egyptian history info and Macy’s still a student.Underneath the Sphinx is also a star map that points the way to the fabled pyramid of Osiris, the man-god.. Given the lack of detail in Cult of Osiris and Nina Wilde’s heavy-handed approach to her job, the book is, however, extremely fast-paced and the chase sequences are some of the best you will ever read (at times I had to hold the chair as Eddy cut another impossible corner).From Egypt to the US, then to Monaco and to Switzerland and back to Egypt, our team — Wilde, Chase and Sharif — tries to thwart Osir, the leader of the Cult of Osiris, and his brother Shaban. What makes the other three a pleasure to read are the little bits of information readers get and the bigger premise of "What If”..The book begins at an Egyptian archaeology dig at the Sphinx where an ancient repository of scrolls is about to be uncovered. His religion, the Cult of Osiris, is something like modern-day Scientology, with film stars and celebrities as members. In fact, the Daily Express says about McDermott, "A writer of rare cinematic talent” and that says it all: Low on plot and credibility, but high on action and stunts.

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