The Red Pyramid: the first book in Rick Riordan's Kane series. Percy Jackson faced the Greek Gods. Now the Gods of Egypt are awakening in the modern world...

“I think it started the night our father blew up the British Museum...”

Carter and Sadie Kane have a father who is an exceptional Egyptologist with a secret plan that results in great disaster. An explosion breaks the ancient Rosetta Stone and releases Set, the evil God of Chaos...

Set traps Dr. Kane in a golden sarcophagus and Carter and Sadie must run for their lives. To save their father, they embark on a terrifying quest from Cairo to Paris and to the southwestern United States 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 not at all dead and buried. And unfortunately, neither are their gods...

Rick Riordan has now sold 55 million copies of his books worldwide.

Reviews for the Percy Jackson series:

“Humorous and inspired. Exciting, moving, and delightfully satirical... This is the most likely to succeed J.K. Rowling. Puffin is definitely a winner” - Amanda Craig, The Times

“Puns, jokes and subtle irony, along with a gripping plot” - Telegraph

“Perfectly structured, with electrifying moments following each other like heartbeats” - New York Times

Rick Riordan is an award-winning mystery writer. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife and two sons. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief was the overall winner of the Children’s Books Can Award in 2006.

The Percy Jackson series: The Lightning Thief; The Sea of Monsters; The Battle of the Labyrinth; The Titan's Curse; The Last Olympian.

The Heroes of Olympus series: The Lost Hero; The Son of Neptune; The Mark of Athena.

The Kane series: The Red Pyramid; The Throne of Fire; The Serpent's Shadow.

Pages: 544, Dimensions: 13x13cm.