City of Jackals
A Makana Investigation
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:2nd Jun '16
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A severed head and a missing young man. More trouble in the streets of Cairo in a gripping new investigation for ‘one of crime fiction’s most interesting and sympathetic detectives’ (The Times)
FINDING REFUGE CAN BE DEADLY.More trouble on the streets of Cairo in a gripping new investigation for ‘one of crime fiction’s most interesting and sympathetic detectives’ (The Times) A severed head washes up on the banks of the Nile. The police turn a blind eye. It is just another victim in a series of ritual killings of refugees. Distracted from his hunt for a missing boy, Makana feels the pull of his Sudanese past and is impelled to seek justice for the murdered emigrants. In the dark heart of Cairo, Makana soon discovers the two cases may be connected in dangerous and unexpected ways.
‘Parker Bilal’s superb series of novels set in President Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt has now reached the period just after the Iraq war. In City of Jackals the country’s corrupt officials are struggling to contain an influx of refugees from the conflict in Egypt’s southern neighbour Sudan * Sunday Times, Crime Book of the Month *
A man of honour living in a city of upheaval and corruption, he tries to protect everyone he can. Following The Burning Gates, this fifth entry in the international thriller series is excellent * Library Journal *
Bilal’s Cairo is a Los Angeles of yesteryear, Makana a wonderful Marlowe. That’s a compliment to an author who gets better and better * The Times *
Like all the best crime fiction, Bilal’s story has a depth and resonance which stretches far beyond its cast of characters into the wider world * Independent *
For some time now, Parker Bilal has been writing superb crime novels set in Egypt … Bilal is the pseudonym of a literary novelist, Jamal Mahjoub, and this fourth Makana book is a sardonic commentary on Mubarak’s Egypt at its most corrupt * Sunday Times on The Burning Gates *
Excellent … More please * Literary Review *
ISBN: 9781408864487
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 372g
464 pages