"Percy Jackson fought Greek Gods. Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world...The first title in a brand-new major series by the author of Percy Jackson- now with a fantastic new paperback cover lookWith all the action, humour and excitement you'd expect from Rick Riordan, the Myth Maker, author of the bestselling Percy Jackson series 'I have never seen my son so excited about a book' - Amazon user 'I GUESS IT STARTED THE NIGHT OUR DAD BLEW UP THE BRITISH MUSEUM . . .’ CARTER AND SADIE KANE’Sdad is a brilliant Egyptologist with a secret plan that goes horribly wrong. An explosion shatters the ancient Rosetta stone and unleashes Set, the evil god of chaos . Set imprisons Dr Kane in a golden coffin and Carter and Sadie must run for their lives. To save their dad, they embark on a terrifying quest from Cairo to Paris to the American South-west and discover the truth about their family’s connection to the House of Life: an Egyptian temple of magic that has existed for thousands of years. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt are far from dead and buried. And so, unfortunately, are their gods . . . The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid is the first title in the The Kane Cronicles series."