Country United Kingdom Name The Game Language English Genres Fantasy literature | Publication date 4 March 2002 Publisher HarperCollins Media type Print Paperback) | |
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Pages 320 pp (first edition, paperback) Similar The Seven Fabulous Wonders books, Katherine Roberts books | ||
Originally published March 4, 2002 | ||
The Babylon Game is a fantasy novel by Katherine Roberts which is the second novel in The Seven Fabulous Wonders series and the sequel to The Great Pyramid Robbery.
Plot
It is the year 539 B.C. Inside the city of Babylon, known as the Gateway of God, is Tia, the adopted daughter of a perfume maker. She is picking herbs in the sacred Amytis garden. Next to the garden is a portion of the double defense wall surrounding the city. Tia soon discovered what is between the two walls; Sirrush, otherwise known as dragons.
Fearing for the dragon's health, she leaves them food. A touch from the dragons grants Tia great magical powers, enough to threaten or save Babylon. These will be needed, as far in the plains the Persian king Cyrus the Great, plans to capture Babylon. The secret of its salvation might just lie in the hanging gardens themselves.