The Red Pyramid (novel)
Cover of first edition
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| Author | Rick Riordan |
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| Illustrator | Sean O'Kelly Michelle Gengaro-Kokmen (Hieroglyph art) |
| Cover artist | John Rocco |
| Country | United States |
| Series | The Kane Chronicles (bk 1) |
| Genre | Fantasy, adventure, children's novel |
| Publisher | Disney Hyperion |
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Publication date
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May 4, 2010 |
| Media type | Print, audiobook |
| Pages | 516 pp (first ed.) |
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| OCLC | 488861751 |
| LC Class | PZ7.R4829 Re 2010 |
| Followed by | The Throne of Fire |
The Red Pyramid is a 2010 fantasy adventure novel based on Egyptian mythology written by American author Rick Riordan. It is the first novel in The Kane Chronicles series.
The book is written as though it were a transcription of an audiorecording by siblings Carter and Sadie Kane, alternately narrated in first-person by the siblings.
The novel opens with Carter and their father Julius Kane to visit Sadie, who has been living with her maternal grandparents since the death of the siblings' mother, Ruby Kane. Julius, who is secretly a magician but posing as a simple egyptologist, takes the siblings to the British Museum, where he tries to bring Osiris (the Egyptian god of the Underworld) back into the mortal world. Julius's magic has the unintended side effect of also summoning the gods Horus, Isis, Nephthys, and Set; and alerting the magicians Zia Rashid and Michel Desjardins to his actions, which are illegal within the magical community. Set, a god of chaos, captures Julius and destroys the museum. Unbeknownst to Carter and Sadie, each of the gods chooses a mortal host from the humans in the room.
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