The Men Behind: A Mamur Zapt Mystery

by Michael Pearce

Book Overview

While riding home to lunch on his donkey, Fairclough of Customs is rudely unseated by shots fired from behind. The incident is but the first of a series of attacks seemingly aimed at public officials. Even Captain Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's Secret Police, barely escapes. Is a sinister campaign to undermine foreign rule under way? And who are "the men behind"? True, the Nationalist movement is rising after thirty years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590580524
• ISBN13: 9781590580523
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

The Mamur Zapt Series

Gentle, droll, English humor at its best. These stories combine the murder mystery with the politics and culture of Colonial life and the Middle Eastern mystique in cosmopolitan turn-of-the-century Cairo. These books can't be allowed to disappear off the shelves.