I’ve wanted to read this book since the second I saw its cover. And I’m happy to share what I have learned with other writers. I am fortunate to be a member of two fine critique groups. TEPUI won 1st Place at the 2004 Pacific Northwest Writers conference. What he finds should have been left unfound. TEPUI, an adventure/thriller scheduled for publication in late 2013, follows a burn-scarred botanist who, guided by a 16th-Century Spanish manuscript, treks into the remote highlands of Venezuela in search of a plant thought to have died out with the dinosaurs. PAPYRUS reached the semi-finals of the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel competition. The secret text shatters conventional wisdom and launches her on a quest to find Tiye’s tomb. PAPYRUS, an adventure/thriller set to be published in 2013, tells the story of an African woman who, while working on her PhD thesis in the Cairo Museum, discovers hidden writing on a papyrus written by Queen Tiye to her youngest son, Tutankhamun. Here is a link to the Amazon page for both paperback and Kindle versions. APHRODESIA has received excellent reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Amazon customers. All have won awards.ĪPHRODESIA, published in October 2012, is a mystery/suspense story centered on fragrances and focused on one particular perfume that turns out to be a powerful aphrodisiac, so powerful it drives some people to kill their lovers in a fit of insatiable lust. Since retiring from full-time geology in 2000, I have completed three novels. Besides challenging situations, I love science, history, the arts, and animals, all of which figure in my stories. My work took me to about fifty countries and introduced me to cultures, people, and settings that provide inspiration for my novels. I began life as an exploration geologist. Papyrus was a semi-finalist in the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition (top 1% of 10,000 entries) and garnered more than a hundred 5-star reviews. And readers who liked Lisbeth Salander in Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, will love Rika. In a league with Michael Crichton, Dan Brown, and Wilbur Smith, John Oehler has created a cinematic page-turner of explosive yet poetic brilliance. Rika’s quest to find Tiye’s tomb parallels the queen’s last journey up the Nile, three thousand years before, to be buried alive in a tomb like no other. Reared in revolution, Rika feels a spiritual bond with Tiye, an African commoner who revolutionized Egyptian society by introducing a religion that freed Egypt from the tyranny of the Amun priests. But Major Hassam of the Egyptian Secret Police misreads their activities as a plot to overthrow the government and vows to stop them at all costs. Riveted by these revelations, Rika and David devise a covert plan to locate Tiye’s tomb. They show Tiye, previously a footnote in history, to have been the power behind the thrones of her husband and sons, as well as the architect of a monotheistic religion unique in ancient Egypt. Horrified at the damage but aching to read the entire secret text, Rika agrees to let visiting remote-sensing expert David Chamberlain smuggle the priceless document out of the museum and scan it with instruments on his aircraft. But the spill also exposes hidden writing below the surface hieroglyphs. An accidental tea spill damages the royal papyrus she has been struggling to interpret, the papyrus purported to be Queen Tiye’s last message to her son, Tutankhamun. Rika Teferi, a young woman who formerly led midnight raids in Eritrea’s war for independence from Ethiopia, is working on her doctorate in the Cairo museum when catastrophe strikes. With Papyrus, John Oehler "delivers a fusion of mainstream thriller and historical fiction reminiscent of The Da Vinci Code."
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