THE ROSETTA KEY--William Dietrich—A true adventurer, Ethan Gage, former protégé of Ben Franklin, searches for the Book of Truth as he escapes from a prior adventure in Egypt, and also searches for a love he lost there—literally—when she fell from a hot-air balloon. His search takes him to the holy land and through a series of adventures involving the British, French and locals as Napoleon attempts to best Alexander in capture of the globe. Incredible scrapes Gage manages to escape, all with tongue in cheek humor and a way with words and thoughts that bring smiles to reader’s face. Example, p 77, “I couldn’t’ have made a worse stew if I’d invited anarchists to draw up a constitution”. Highly enjoyable.