Author | Robin Cook |
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Language | English |
Genre | Thriller |
Publisher | Putnam (US) Macmillan (UK) |
Publication date | 1979 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (paperback & hardback) |
ISBN | 0-330-26088-X |
OCLC | 16496298 |
Preceded by | Coma |
Followed by | Brain |
Sphinx is a 1979 novel by Robin Cook. It follows a young American Egyptologist named Erica Baron, on a working vacation in Egypt, who stumbles into a dangerous vortex of intrigue after seeing an ancient Egyptian statue of Seti I in a Cairo market.[1] Cook's third novel, it is one of the few not centered on medicine.[2]
In 1981, the novel was adapted into the film Sphinx starring Lesley-Anne Down as Erica and Frank Langella as Ahmed Khazzan.[3]