Bøger af George Lambelle

They have been brought from the Limbo of the Wings with masks and gloves of gold --Jean Cocteau.The mask and golden coffin of the boy king, Tutankhamun, became the wonder of the age when his tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922. For some, though, such treasures became at once an obsession and a temptation. The love rivalry of two American women, Esther and Ariana, one a Jewess and the other an Arab, created an unscrupulous rivalry without remorse. The result was an audacious raid to extract the treasures directly from inside the Cairo Museum. The events leading up to this led to intrigue, double-dealing, murder, spies, and a pursuit across North Africa, Eastern and Western Europe, the North Sea and the North York Moors of England. Unfortunately it was complicated by the assassination of the Egyptian president, Anwar el Sadat, causing suspicion to fall upon their investigators. The women's rivalry, laced by a melange of passion and hatred, brings about a tense climax in the bowels of an ancient church crypt risking embarrassment to two international powers, especially when an "instinctive copper" from Cairo wouldn't obey orders

"Call Me Stranger" is an escapist fantasy concerns a time-travelling Cat trying to save his previously Good witch after she was misled into becoming Bad. The scenarios cover present day, North Yorkshire and the Tyneside of a thousand years ago. The central Warlock is an unprepossessing, rather boring accountant who has no idea about his Magickal Powers, so the Cat has to organise witches to make him to realise his skills. The problems come from clashes of personality between the principal characters. One witch is a kleptomania, another a dipsomania, another a smelly gypsy medium in a sacking dress held together with rope. There is also a time travelling dwarf, who met the Cat while lost in Limbo and is adopted by the Cat (with support from the others) and becomes a deputy leader under instruction from the Cat (who doesn't speak) and a child temptress when a beautiful adult woman on the odd occasion. This is when she can inspire great things from the highly strung Warlock. Singing and flying forest animals enjoy life with the help of the witch, but lord of the manor who has fallen for the Witch, ends up liaising with Cedric the Executioner and a wily, failed royal servant, gets into the mix to wreck things on all sides. By the way, "Magick" has extraordinary powers, whereas "magic" has not!!

Call Me Stranger is a fantasy for adults which retains our childish love of the magickally impossible. Yes. Magick, not Magic is what counts in this romp where Evil takes on Good.The war between Darline and the Cat didn't really get going for a thousand years after Darline was burned at the stake for Witchcraft. Cat did all a faithful Familiar could, but Time Rules tied his paws as he fought to prevent the newly Evil Darline wreaking havoc.The shy accountant, Norman Boosbeck, didn't even know he was a Warlock because Magick died off centuries Cat's team of Witches all carried their own weaknesses - dipsomaniac Erin, kleptomaniac Lydia, or pipe-smoking smelly tramp, Ramona. They were joined by the brattish child-medium Melanie (who was also the lovely adult Alice, sent to inspire Norman) and the dapper Warlock hypnotist, Darren.Irving, a dwarf from an unknown planet, met Cat in Limbo after getting lost in Time. However, Cat appointed him unofficial leader of the eccentric gang intent upon bringing Norman back within the Magickal fold.It was difficult! Today's world couldn't even spell 'magick', let alone use it. Everything went wrong when the man in Darline's life, Lord of the Manor, Sir James Hawkney became a pawn in the ambitious schemes of the King's Prosecutor, Hubert, and Cedricke, the Executioner.Marching sheep, talking rabbits, four-foot frogs, twelve-inch crickets and three very worried Spirits didn't help much, either.At the centre of it all, though was the vain, enigmatic and unpredictable Cat. Whose side is he really on...?