| Pharaoh | |
| Author: | Wilbur Smith |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Release Date: | September 22nd, 2016 |
| Media Type: | |
| Pages: | 512 |
| Isbn: | 978-0-06-227648-3 |
| Preceded By: | Desert God |
Pharaoh is a novel by author Wilbur Smith published in 2016. It is part of a series of novels by Smith set in Ancient Egypt and follows the fate of the Egyptian Kingdom through the eyes of Taita, a multi-talented and highly skilled eunuch ex-slave, now Advisor and General of Pharaoh's armies.
It was the sixth in his series of Egyptian novels.[1]
Reviewing the book for the South China Morning Post, James Kidd describes the writing as "portentous" and the plot as "verging on homophobia."[2] Kirkus Reviews was somewhat kinder, describing the novel as "a swords-and-sandals action-adventure no worse or better than the first five in Smith’s Egyptian series."[3]