The Lost Cult

The Lost Cult is a novel by E. E. Knight.

Back Cover Blurb
While on a mission for the CIA to recover stolen Iraqi artefacts, Lara Croft narrowly escapes death - only to be thrown headlong into her next action-packed adventure.

After destroying years of his research on the ancient Mene cult, archaeologist Professor Frys is murdered by an unknown assassin. Lara Croft knows her colleague must have stumbled upon a dangerous secret - and someone took his life to ensure it would remain in the shadows. So Lara jets to the mysterious cloud forests of eastern Peru, home of the Mene ruins, and makes a shocking discovery: A group is attempting to revive the sinister cult and its mind-controlling ways. One of the followers is Lara's former friend and failed protege, Tomb Raider Ajay - and she is determined to see Lara silenced... permanently. But Lara, never one to run from a challenge, has other plans.

Characters

 * Lara Croft
 * Alex Frys
 * Alison Harfleur
 * Nils Bjorkstrom
 * Heather Rourke
 * Tejo Kunai
 * Lancaster Urdmann
 * Stephen Frys
 * Shanks
 * Mishez
 * Li Yuan
 * Winston Smith

Locations

 * England
 * Peru

References to the Games

 * Werner Von Croy - a colleague of Stephen Frys
 * Paris Monstrum
 * The Cabal
 * Angkor Wat - the discovery of Lara's backpack
 * Gordonstoun School
 * Greece, Italy and Egypt - Lara mentions having spent her summers there. It is unclear if Lara is referring to the events of Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider II. Peru is also mentioned, again unclear
 * Lord Henshingly Croft - Had disowned Lara
 * Swiss Finishing School - Lara ran away from time to time
 * Himalyas plane crash
 * Larson and Pierre DuPont - On a previous adventure, Lara and Alison were too late to a location to discover that an artefact had been already taken by Larson and Pierre
 * Lara is told that she has left bodies in every continent save Antarctica. Lara implies about her having left bodies there too, a reference to Tomb Raider III
 * The Times
 * Croft Manor's cellar dates back to the English Civil War. Lara's grandfather converted it into a bomb shelter and it received many updates since then
 * The mosaics in Lara's swimming pool were based on a drawing by her mother
 * Earl of Farringdon
 * Lara received a gift, a samovar, from the Russian government for sorting out Sergei Mikhailov when searching for the Spear of Destiny
 * First class aeroplane attendant Mishez tended to Lara's knee bruises on the way back from the Nevada Desert
 * A monk from the Barkhang Monastery informed army officer Li Yuan of events in Tibet. This caught the attention of journalist Heather Rourke
 * Marco Bartoli - Lara spoke of him as being a thief and a smuggler
 * Atlantis
 * It is implied that Shanks dropped Lara off at the Great Wall of China