Lord of Light

By Matthew Ismail

"A collector, Mr Wilkinson, is always collecting. This is the nature of the beast." So says London antiquities dealer Nikos Volanakis, who bought a statue of the Pharaoh Akhenaten from a smuggler assuming that he would be able to sell it to a wealthy antiquities collector for a ten-fold profit. When the statue is stolen from Volanakis' gallery he decides to enlist the services of a distant cousin, the Greek-English adventurer Hugh Wilkinson, to get it back. Wilkinson, the son of an English father and a Cretan mother, is settled in London but running out of money. He is looking for a way to replenish his bank account that does not include sitting behind a desk while he is also considering the possibility of marriage. When Volanakis offers to pay Wilkinson half of what he paid for the statute of the Lord of Light if he recovers it, Wilkinson makes a counter-offer: he will find the the statue and return it to Volanakis, but he wants half of the much larger amount for which Volanakis plans to sell it -- which is a wonderful idea if Wilkinson can survive to collect it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147011352X
• ISBN13: 9781470113520
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"