This strange book has a lot of cool things going on: ancient Egyptian texts, deathlessness, a dash of romance, desert landscapes, monsters, and a wide variety of guns. Unfortunately, this grocery list of cool doesn't make up for the fact that there really is no plot. Everything just kind of meanders along until the big showdown at the end, but it isn't very satisfying because you spend the first two-thirds of the book not sure what the goal is.