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Pearce delivers another sizzling installment in his excellent Mamur Zapt series. As chief of Cairo's secret police (the Mamur Zapt), Welshman Gareth Owen continues to delicately straddle a cultural divide made more precarious by the onset of World War I. Caught betwixt and between Egyptian, Turkish, and British social and political interests, he investigates both the murder of one of his local agents and a rash of inexplicable fires plaguing the foreign owned and operated liquor houses. In addition, Owen struggles with divided loyalties and emotions made all the more complicated by his recent marriage to Zeinab, the independent and outspoken daughter of a local Pasha. Set in an exotic locale at a pivotal point in history and populated by a memorable international cast, this intelligent whodunit shines as much for its cosmopolitan setting and characterizations as for its tautly woven plot. Margaret Flanagan
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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It's World War I. Britain has ruled Egypt since 1881 under a shadow government headed by its Agent and Consul General under the nominal authority of Egypt's hereditary ruler the Khedive. The head of the Secret Police is the Mamur Zapt, an office currently held by a Welshman, Captain Gareth Cadwallader Owen. And as the clouds of the war further darken Egypt's sun-lit skies, he has his hands full. On the professional front, there's all that commotion that started in Cairo's Camel Market. On the personal side, Owen has married his longtime lover, the lovely Pasha's daughter, Zeinab, a move with serious consequences for both of them and riddled with political and social pitfalls. Neither can be fully accepted by the other's culture and community. Against this, the perils of the Great War pale....
This remarkable series is penned by a former Anglo-Egyptian civil servant who succeeds in bringing a vibrant, conflict-packed age to life in a manner that illuminates the situation we face today.
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Pearce delivers another sizzling installment in his excellent Mamur Zapt series. As chief of Cairo's secret police (the Mamur Zapt), Welshman Gareth Owen continues to delicately straddle a cultural divide made more precarious by the onset of World War I. Caught betwixt and between Egyptian, Turkish, and British social and political interests, he investigates both the murder of one of his local agents and a rash of inexplicable fires plaguing the foreign owned and operated liquor houses. In addition, Owen struggles with divided loyalties and emotions made all the more complicated by his recent marriage to Zeinab, the independent and outspoken daughter of a local Pasha. Set in an exotic locale at a pivotal point in history and populated by a memorable international cast, this intelligent whodunit shines as much for its cosmopolitan setting and characterizations as for its tautly woven plot. Margaret Flanagan
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Product Description
It's World War I. Britain has ruled Egypt since 1881 under a shadow government headed by its Agent and Consul General under the nominal authority of Egypt's hereditary ruler the Khedive. The head of the Secret Police is the Mamur Zapt, an office currently held by a Welshman, Captain Gareth Cadwallader Owen. And as the clouds of the war further darken Egypt's sun-lit skies, he has his hands full. On the professional front, there's all that commotion that started in Cairo's Camel Market. On the personal side, Owen has married his longtime lover, the lovely Pasha's daughter, Zeinab, a move with serious consequences for both of them and riddled with political and social pitfalls. Neither can be fully accepted by the other's culture and community. Against this, the perils of the Great War pale....
This remarkable series is penned by a former Anglo-Egyptian civil servant who succeeds in bringing a vibrant, conflict-packed age to life in a manner that illuminates the situation we face today.
See all Editorial Reviews
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