The Quest

Ancient Egypt, Book 4

By: Wilbur Smith

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

Length: 26 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

She is omnivorous. No matter age or appearance, physical frailty or imperfection. It is not their flesh that feeds her appetites but their souls. She devours young and old, men and women. She leaves only a desiccated husk.

An unspeakable evil. An impossible gift.

Renowned magus Taita is now over 100 years old and has ascended to a new level of wisdom and understanding about his world. But he must prepare himself for the biggest threat Egypt has ever faced: the great plagues and the failure of the Nile, brought about by the fire witch Eos, an ancient force of sheer evil.

Taita must risk his soul to battle against Eos, or his homeland and everything he has ever loved will be lost forever. But there are other reasons for Taita to fight - since success could also mean rewards he could never have thought possible....

The fourth book in the epic Egyptian series.

©2007 Wilbur Smith (P)2018 Audible, Ltd

Awful Narration

I regret buying/using a credit on the audible version of the quest.

Narrator poorly portrays the main character. In the previous books/audiobook he is confident and clever. The narrator makes the character voice sound weak and lacking the confidence that makes him THE warlock. It feels as though the narrator does not know the character at all, did not read the previous books and constantly use the same inflections on sentences.

He even says the main characters NAME completely different then all the other non audible audio books.

eh, not nearly as good as the previous

this is okay but where the previous books are historical fiction, this turns to sci-fi

An engaging adventure through ancient times.

An engaging adventure through ancient times. Travel ancient Africa with an Egyptian sage to restart the flow of the Nile.

Wilbur Smith and the Egypt series

I have just finished The Quest, book 5 and about to start the next audiobook in the series. I will be sad to have series end.

That Wilbur Smith !

As always with the word Smith, nothing short of wondrous. This book as every of his other would be as entertaining if it ended at the end of any one the incredible adventures he leads us through. There are several "happy endings" throughout this story. It has multiple climaxes and each one is as potent as the next.
Just when you think that Nothing could make a "smith" book better, along comes Mark Meadows, to light the bowl and pour the Remmi...

Adventure and Fan

There was not one bad part in the whole book! Awesome way to invent new ways of power transfer. What a twist on the fountain of youth. There is no stopping me from getting the next book. So many awesome characters. Must read!!!

A good book but it’s more fantasy than historical fiction.

I enjoyed the story although I wouldn’t call this historical fiction it’s more like a fantasy novel that takes place in ancient Egypt and the part of Africa that today we call Kenya. Data has to journey up the Nile all the way to what I’m assuming is modern-day Lake Victoria although it’s called something different back then where he hast to locate and defeat of witch that has dried up the Nile and sent some plagues onto the Egyptians.

amazing

just as you think ... boring.... it whips up your imagination and flare your inquisitive aura

A great epic in a wonderful series

Since Wilbur Smith is one of my favorite authors, and his Egyptian books one of my favorite series, there should be little surprise that this epic I novel is likewise a favorite. Epic in both number of pages and geography, his descriptions of Egypt to Ethiopia are vivid and wonderful... I only wish the outcome of Aos might have been more prudish.

Once again Mark made a great story come alive

with Mark this great story line became a great experience I found this 4th (5th) book of the series the most enjoyable