Send a Fax to the Kasbah

by Dorothy Dunnett

Book Overview

Upwardly mobile and smart Wendy Helmann, Executive Secretary, is in Marrakesh with her mother while her boss, Chairman of Kingsley Conglomerates, conducts very delicate if slightly dubious takeover... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151808120
• ISBN13: 9780151808120
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Just wonderful

I found this book randomly trying to see what else my preferred historical fiction writer wrote. A thriller! I couldn't believe it, I rarely read any Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes excepted. And what a story. Non stop action. You'll find the good, the bad and those who are not so good or bad. You won't be able to put it down. There will be the characters you love, those you want to strangulate because they talk too much or... too little. It is refreshing, fast, no sex (sorry for those who need it), a lot of humor with all the beauties and nightmares of the wonderful Morocco. Enjoy! Claude

Byzantine tales in Marrakech

Typical Dunnett Byzantine plot, yet set in modern Morocco. It's amazing how intricate her webs become, with only a half dozen major characters, yet each of them appears to have multiple connections and motivations. The story runs from Marrakech to seaside Esssaouria, then back to the Atlas mountains. Her descriptions of Morocco give vivid reality to the otherwise fantastic storyline

More JJ, *but* the picture's starting to come together.

The Johnson Johnson/Dolly series is, as the other reviewer says, lighter and more easily digestible than Dunnett's historical sagas, but share all the same characteristics: a strong dose of intrigue, rousing good chases and oblique heroics. MOROCCAN TRAFFIC/SEND A FAX TO THE KASBAH, like all the other JJ novels is a self-contained story, narrated by a completely new character with things to say about bifocals. But unlike all the other JJ novels, has overt continuity with previous books in the series. If you like to have your bombs exploded in the proper order, I highly recommend that you sit on this one until you've (at least) read DOLLY AND THE BIRD OF PARADISE/TROPICAL ISSUE.

easy reading but engaging

This has actually been published before under the title Moroccan Traffic- I mention this only becasue I thought it a new Johnson book and was disappointed to discover that I had already read it. This did not stop me re-reading it however. This series is a LOT easier than either the Lymond or Niccolo series but is still gripping and rather amusing. A series for those who like mysteries and adventure stories without the misogyny or obsessive weapon-cataloguing of all too many action stories. This pasticular book can be read on its own but it does pay to read Dolly and the Bird of Paradise (or whatever title it was reprinted under) to get some of the background