| Sphinx | |
| Author: | Robin Cook |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Publisher: | Putnam (US) Macmillan (UK) |
| Release Date: | 1979 |
| Media Type: | Print (paperback & hardback) |
| Isbn: | 0-330-26088-X |
| Oclc: | 16496298 |
| Preceded By: | Coma |
| Followed By: | Brain |
Sphinx is a 1979 novel by Robin Cook. It follows a young American Egyptologist named Erica Baron, on a working vacation in Egypt, who stumbles into a dangerous vortex of intrigue after seeing an ancient Egyptian statue of Seti I in a Cairo market.[1] Cook's third novel, it is one of the few not centered on medicine.[2]
In 1981, the novel was adapted into the film Sphinx starring Lesley-Anne Down as Erica and Frank Langella as Ahmed Khazzan.