An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Rick Riordan's The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid, read by Joseph May and Jane Collingwood.

About the book:

Percy Jackson fought Greek Gods. Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world....

I guess it started the night out dad blew up the British Museum....

Carter and Sadie Kane's dad 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 Southwest 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....

Rick Riordan: The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles #1) read by Jane Collingwood & Joseph May

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Rick Riordan: The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles #1) read by Jane Collingwood & Joseph May

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