The Three Secret Cities by Matthew Reilly

Author:Matthew Reilly
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2018-10-02T04:53:08+00:00

London, England

26–28 November

Zoe burst into the flat and went straight to Iolanthe. Mae was still there, watching over the battered princess.

‘Where is the royal prison!’ Zoe demanded. ‘The Knights got Lily and then that Yago bastard turned up and grabbed Jack.’

Mae’s face went pale. ‘The royal jailer captured Jack?’

‘Yes, and if we’re going to rescue Lily and Alby, we need to get Jack back and we need to do it now. Where is the royal prison, Iolanthe?’

‘Like I said before,’ Iolanthe said, ‘I don’t know. No-one knows the location of Erebus except for the royal jailer himself.’

‘You said it’s believed to be somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea. Crete, Malta or even Troy,’ Zoe said desperately. ‘Can we try any of those? Any of them?’

‘We can try,’ Iolanthe said, giving Zoe a genuinely sympathetic grimace. ‘But I don’t want to give you false hope. Others have attempted this before and all of them failed.’

Putting aside for the moment their task of finding the coffin of Sir Francis Drake—and in the case of Zoe and Iolanthe, their prior battles—the three women spent the next two days chasing up every lead they could find on the location of the Prison at Erebus: from reading the entire history of Crete, to examining ancient family lines whose members had been royal jailers, to dissecting the Great Siege of Malta by Ottoman forces in 1565.

But, in the end, they found nothing.

No mention of a location. Not a single trace of information.

The location of the fabled prison at Erebus was indeed one of history’s most closely guarded secrets.

After forty-eight hours of solid searching, Mae sighed. ‘Zoe, it’s hopeless. We can’t find him.’

‘We have to find him,’ Zoe said. ‘He’d do it for us.’

Iolanthe shook her head. ‘If only it were that easy. Finding lost ancient places can be done when you have the information at hand and particular references to guide you, but not in this case. I’m sorry, Zoe, I really am, but if Jack’s been taken to Erebus, he might as well have vanished from the face of the Earth.’

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