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{{Infobox Book
|book name=Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils
|author=[[Rob MacGregor]]
|image=[[File:IndianaJonesAndTheSevenVeils.jpg|250px]]
|cover artist=[[Drew Struzan]]
|country=[[USA]]
|publisher=[[Bantam Books]]
|released=December [[1991]]
|pages=275
|preceded =''[[Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants]]''
|followed =''[[Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge]]''
|isbn=0-553-29334-6
|canon=Licensing
|timeline=[[1926]]
}}
'''''Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils''''' is the third novel in the [[Indiana Jones (franchise)|''Indiana Jones'']] series published by [[Bantam Books]]. It was written by [[Rob MacGregor]] and released in December [[1991]].

== Publisher's summary ==
''VEILS OF OBLIVION''

''Having barely survived a hair-raising archaeological dig in Tikal, Guatemala, Indiana Jones has returned to New York just in time to get caught up in a controversy. The mysterious writings of Colonel Percy Fawcett, a missing British explorer, have turned up, and what they describe could revolutionize history&mdash;and make or break several scientific reputations. For Percy paints a tantalizing picture of a lost city in the Brazilian jungle and a mythical red-headed race who may be the descendants of ancient Celtic Druids....''

''No one loves mystery or adventure more than Indiana Jones. So with his trusty bullwhip in hand an the lovely Deirdre Campbell firmly in tow, he sets out for the wilds of the Amazon. But Indy has more enemies that he knows, including a bunch of hard-nosed thugs and a cannibalistic Indian tribe who are out to make him instant history. And if he survives what they throw his way, there's still the fabled city itself...where the inhabitants practice the magic of the "seven veils" and no one leaves alive!''

==Plot summary==
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== Appearances ==
=== Characters ===
* [[Amergin]]
* [[Angie]]
* [[Marie Antoinette]] {{Mo}}
* [[Anu]] {{Mo}}
* Father [[John Baines]]
* [[Bel]] {{Mo}}
* [[Victor Bernard]]
* [[Elizabeth Brody]] {{Fm}}
* [[Marcus Brody]]
* [[Camozotz]] {{Mo}}
* [[Deirdre Campbell Jones|Deirdre Campbell]]
* [[Frank Carino]]
* [[Carlos (Brazil)]]
* [[Jesus Christ]] {{C|Statue only}}
* [[Churchill]]
* [[Christopher Columbus]] {{Mo}}
* [[Coolidge]] {{Mo}}
* [[Esteban]]
* [[Exu]] {{Mo}}
* [[Percy Fawcett]]
* [[Larry Fletcher]]
* [[Gershwin]] {{Mo}}
* [[Robert Goddard]] {{Mo}}
* [[Gray Beard]]
* Hans
* [[Brenda Hilliard]]
* [[Hugo]]
* [[Hugo's mother]] {{Mo}}
* [[Jagged Teeth]]
* [[Joaquin]]
* [[John]]
* [[Henry Walton Jones, Senior]] {{Mo}}
* [[Indiana Jones]]
* [[Julia]]
* [[Katherine]]
* [[Manuel]]
* [[Merlin]]
* [[One Eye]]
* [[Oron]]
* [[Oya]] {{Mo}}
* [[Adrian Powell]] {{Mo}}
* [[Quetzalcoatl]] {{Mo}}
* [[Julian Ray]] 
* [[Rae-La]]
* [[Arthur H. Rostron]]
* [[John Scopes]] {{Mo}}
* [[Jack Shannon]] {{Mo}}
* [[Three Musketeers]] {{Mo}}
* [[Tuatha]] {{Mo}}
* [[Harry Walters]]
* [[Xango]] {{Mo}}

=== Locations ===
* [[Atlantic Ocean]]
* [[Atlantis]] {{Mo}}
* [[Brazil]]
** [[Araguaia]] {{Mo}}
** [[Bahia]]
*** [[Bar de Luxo]]
*** [[Hotel Europa]]
*** [[Hotel Paraíso]] {{Mo}}
** [[Mato Grosso]]
*** [[Cuiabá]]
**** [[Mission of Saint Francis]]
*** [[Ceiba]]
** [[Rio de Janeiro]]
*** [[Christ the Redeemer]]
*** [[Guanabara Bay]]
*** [[Palace Hotel]]
*** [[Morro da Urca]]
*** [[Sugarloaf Mountain]]
** [[Rio San Francisco]]
** [[Rio Tocantins]]
** [[Serra do Roncador]] {{Mo}}
** [[Xingu]] {{Mo}}
* [[Guatemala]]
** [[Guatemala City]] {{Mo}}
** [[Tikal]]
* [[London]] {{Mo}}
* [[Orun]] {{Mo}}
* [[Paris]] {{Mo}}
* [[Scotland]] {{Mo}}
** [[Merlin's Cave]] {{Mo}}
* [[Stonehenge]] {{Mo}}
* [[USA]]
** [[Columbia]] {{Mo}}
** [[Davenport]], [[Iowa]] {{Mo}}
** [[Iowa]] {{Mo}}
** [[Mystery Hill]] {{Mo}}
** [[New York City]]
*** [[Central Park]]
*** [[Columbia University]] {{Mo}}
*** [[Grand Central Station]]
*** [[Greenwich Village]] {{Mo}}
*** [[National Museum]]
*** [[Statue of Liberty]]
** [[San Augustin]] {{Mo}}
** [[Vermont]] {{Mo}}
* [[Whithorn]], [[Scotland]] {{Mo}}
* [[Zealand]] {{Mo}}

=== Artifacts ===
*[[Camozotz mask]]
*[[Manuscript 512]]
*[[Shield of Camozots]]

=== Miscellanea ===

* ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' {{Mo}}
* [[Aztec]] {{Mo}}
* [[Bat]] {{Mo}}
* [[Ceiban High Council]]
* [[English Flying Club]] {{Mo}}
* [[Eagle]]
* [[Eye of Bel]]
* [[Giant]] {{Mo}}
* ''[[Herald-Tribune]]''
* [[Jaguar]] {{Mo}}
* ''[[London Times]]''
* [[Maya]] {{Mo}}
* [[Monkey]] {{Mo}}
* [[Morcegos]]
* ''[[New Evidence of Ancient Forays to the Americas]]''
* [[Owl]]
* [[Paul Whiteman Orchestra]]
* [[Phoenicia]] {{Mo}}
* ''[[Post]]''
* ''[[Rhapsody in Blue]]''
* ''[[S.S. Mauretania]]''
* ''[[Times]]'' 
* [[Yaro]] {{Mo}}

==Behind the scenes==
===Development===
[[Rob MacGregor]] came up with the idea for ''Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils'' due to [[Colonel]] [[Percy Harrison Fawcett]] having been a real-life figure often compared to the [[Indiana Jones|title character]] of the [[Indiana Jones (franchise)|''Indiana Jones'']] franchise. Especially fascinated by Fawcett's Lost City of Z search stories in the [[Amazon]], MacGregor opted to write a story that brought both characters together and explore the possibilities of what the city could be about, naming it [[Ceiba]].<ref name="Indymag">''[[Indymag]]'', October 2016</ref> Having visited the Amazon region several times, MacGregor was inspired for his experiences when he worked as a travel writer, as he was hired by [[Wikipedia:Avianca|Avianca Airlines]] to organize trips for travel writers to the Amazon, the [[Wikipedia:Andes|Andes]] and elsewhere, resulting in him going up there from [[Colombia]] to [[Iquitos]], [[Peru]] on a coverted rubber boat thrice.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1fjg54/comment/caax0jy/ Rob MacGregor AMA] at [https://www.reddit.com Reddit]</ref>

The novel killed off [[Deirdre Campbell Jones]], an original character of MacGregor that he introduced in his predecessor ''[[Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants]]''. MacGregor faced no pushback over establishing that Indy had been married prior to ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'',<ref name="GeoCities">[http://web.archive.org/web/20010603195544/http://www.geocities.com/elemental_red/seven_veils.html Interview with MacGregor] at GeoCities {{C|Web archive}}</ref> feeling that [[Lucasfilm Ltd.]]'s corporate chiefs didn't take the novel content too seriously, treating the books as marketing items.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20201018170033/https://elrecovecodelgeek.blogspot.com/2019/09/entrevista-rob-macgregor-y-he-aqui.html Interview with Rob MacGregor] at [https://elrecovecodelgeek.blogspot.com El Recoveco del Geek] {{C|Spanish site}} {{C|Web archive}}</ref> However, someone in charge of the ''Indiana Jones'' bible for the franchise's [[canon]] disapproved of Campbell's existence, so MacGregor had her killed off in the novel to solve.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY3Q0CpGEWw SW INT 132 Rob MacGregor author of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade!] on [[YouTube]]</ref> MacGregor easily complied as he always knew that Indy's marriage with Deirdre had to end it "tragically" due to Indy not being married in the films, [[Wikipedia:Retroactive continuity|seeing]] Indy's carefree attitude with women as a defense mechanism due to his desire to not be hurt again as how he got hurt by Deirdre's death.<ref name="GeoCities" />

For the cover of the novel, artist [[Drew Struzan]] used a photograph of golfer [[Wikipedia:Glenna Collett-Vare|Glenna Collett]] as the basis for Deirdre Campbell's likeness.<ref>[http://newsradiofanfic.angelfire.com/deirdre.jpg Side-by-side comparison]</ref> MacGregor liked Struzan's work, but admitted in retrospective he would have preferred to see more of his character's flaming red hair. Early printings of the novel had Indiana Jones swearing; later reprintings got edited to remove those instances in response to George Lucas' directive that the titular protagonist shouldn't swear after [[Lucasfilm Ltd.]] had to reprint MacGregor's ''[[Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge]]'' due to it originally containing Indy swearing an obscene expletive.<ref name="Indymag" />

===Legacy===
''Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils'' is mentioned and briefly summarized in [[Wikipedia:David Grann|David Grann]]'s 2009 nonfiction book ''[[Wikipedia:The Lost City of Z (book)|The Lost City of Z]]'', which is about Fawcett and his quest for Z.<ref>''[[Wikipedia:The Lost City of Z (book)|The Lost City of Z]]''</ref> MacGregor read the book and enjoyed it, but he disliked that Grann didn't have anything nice to say about his novel, opining that he didn't read it and merely dismissed it.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1fjg54/comment/cabbj6d/ Rob MacGregor AMA] at [https://www.reddit.com Reddit]</ref>

== Cover gallery ==
<gallery>
File:SevenVeilsArt.jpg|Full cover art
File:IndianaJonesAndTheSevenVeils.jpg|[[USA]] paperback.
File:IndianaJonesUndDieHerrenDerTotenStadt.jpg|[[Germany|German]] paperback: ''Indiana Jones und die Herren der Toten Stadt''.
</gallery>

== Sources ==

* {{SW|url=community/news/films/f20080407/index.html|text=The Lost Chronicles of ''Young Indiana Jones''}}

==Notes and references==
{{Reflist}}

== External links==
*{{WP|Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils|''Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils''}}

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{{adventure timeline
| previous-date = August [[1925]]
| previous-title = ''[[Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants]]''
| date = March / April [[1926]]
| title = ''Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils''
| next-date = Spring [[1927]]
| next-title = ''[[Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge]]''
}}

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