The Ibis Tapestry

by Mike Nicol

Book Overview

When a dead man's laptop computer is mysteriously delivered to Robert Poley, he abandons work on his latest "airport" thriller to investigate the murder of the computer's previous owner, Christo Mercer.

Poley discovers that Mercer was an illegal arms trader, fatally stabbed in a remote town in the Sahara. His life was haunted by nightmares of his past, and by his clandestine involvement with a ruthless rebel. Poley begins to recognize a pattern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679780955
• ISBN13: 9780679780953
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A tale of post-Apartheid South Africa

I read the Ibis Tapestry during a recent visit to South Africa and was struck at how accurately the novel captures some of the complexities of the country in these post-apartheid times. If the main character, Christo Mercer, were real, he probably would have been telling his stories to the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. I'm not sure how much I would have appreciated the novel without the benefit of my experiences in South Africa, but I think it is a compelling thriller and well worth reading in any event.