Book excerpt: In 1993, a military court sentenced Alcide Nikopol to thirty years of suspended animation. In 2023, Nikopol is awakened, his body possessed by the Egyptian god Horus, on the run from his fellow gods. So begins the brilliant Nikopol Trilogy, the basis for Inki Bilal's film "Immortal," in which a political dissident deals with a government gone mad, a son he never knew who could now be his twin, a beautiful investigative reporter and a body-jumping Egyptian god.