Parker bilal whisks the reader straight to the dark heart of Cairo. From the maze of alleys in the medieval bazaar to sand-blown, half-finished luxury housing developments, the Egyptian capital is a menacing place where betrayal swirls like an army of djinns. Makana is a poverty-stricken Sudanese political exile living alone on a rickety houseboat on the Nile. He is commissioned by Hanafi, a violent and corrupt Cairene oligarch, with finding Adil Romano, a star football player. Meanwhile, Liz Markham, the daughter of a British aristocrat, has been tortured and murdered while searching for her daughter, who went missing in Cairo more than 20 years earlier.
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