I sensed that the world was a labyrinth from which it is impossible to flee. Jorge Luis Borges So begins E. C. Gibson’s novel The Nine Lords of the Night… Set against the background of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico in 1993 and 1994, the novel explores the antiquities trade and how it affects a group of archaeologists. Betrayals, disappearances, murders, and a labyrinth-like conspiracy reaching from academia to Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico, gradually unravel as the protagonists apply their professional skills to solving larger mysteries.