.....'Yes, Billy, the password, Lieutenant Galbraith gave to you before you left England?''Yes … of course,' he stammered, 'the password … the password is ….. Who can tell the hiding place of the nine? Yes, that is it, Marie Ange. Who can tell the hiding place of the nine?'Four can tell the hiding place of the nine,' she answered.'Who can tell the hiding place of the nine?' repeated Billy, without hesitation.'Three can tell the hiding place of the nine,' came her quick reply.'Who can tell the hiding place of the nine?' asked Billy, a third time.'Two can tell the hiding place of the nine,' she replied, her two spread hands pressed flat across her chest, as if to stop her heart exploding with excitement.'Who can tell the hiding place of the nine?' asked Billy, a fourth and last time, as the mysterious Lieutenant Galbraith had insisted he must.'One and only one can tell the hiding place of the nine,' answered Marie-Ange and with such a thrill of pleasure, it brought squeals of delight and great hugs and kisses of congratulations from Tom and Polly, as if she had won a contest, which in an odd way she had.And so begins an adventure in the vastness of space and time which leads Lieutenant William 'Billy' Kepple, Tom (not her real name), Polly, Marie-Ange and the crew of HMS Parrot in search of the Rebus of Akhenaten, a picture puzzle inscribed on a gold plate. A plate made of nine separate pieces which show where the Pharaoh Akhenaten hid the great horde of treasure he took from the Priest of Amun-Ra in 1336BC. A treasure the secret society of Templar Knights who found it on Jerusalem's Temple Mount in 11128AD say is an engine, machine or device so powerful whosoever possesses it will rule the world.The Bottomless Well of Time is the first book in a series of six books called The Rebus and the Parrot. Book Two, The Secret of the Chateau Tollendal will be published in April 2013.C R Searle, 2013 Further information about this fascinating series can be found on: www.TheSwordAndShieldOfAten.com