A God Against the Gods is a 1976 historical novel by political novelist Allen Drury, which chronicles ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten's attempt to establish a new religion in Egypt. It is told in a series of monologues by the various characters. Drury wrote a 1977 sequel, Return to Thebes, and a 1980 nonfiction book about Egypt, and said that the political struggles of Egypt resembled those of Washington, D. C. Both A God Against the Gods and Return to Thebes were brought back into print in 2015 by WordFire Press.