Firebird - Brossura

Asher, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0007102240 ISBN 13: 9780007102242

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2000

Riassunto

The new atmospheric thriller by the author of the outstanding The Eye of Ra.

The murder in Cairo of Dr al-Ghali, Egyptian-born adviser to the US President, brought both the local police and the FBI to the scene. Feisty, country-born Lieutenant Sami is paired with the FBI agent, arrogant, attractive Daisy Brooke, with her degree in middle eastern studies from California.

The only thing the dying man said was ‘Firebird’.

The explosive mix of character and national interest was fuelled by the discovery at the murder scene of an amulet traced to the Sanusiya Brotherhood, a fundamentalist Muslim sect thought to have disappeared at the turn of the century. The Sanusiya appear to have been involved in the excavation in the Western Desert of a remarkable site where Camyses III, King of Persia, and his vast army, armour and gold bullion, disappeared in a powerful sandstorm. And the words Operation Firebird seem enough to have every door slammed against you... The activities of a renegade group of Americans, apparently working for a secret organisation, of a strange Bedouin woman, always present just before violence occurs, and of the US Embassy and the various elements of Cairo police, make Sami and Daisy’s investigations both difficult and dangerous.

The combination of Egyptian myth and history with contemporary politics and violence, the author’s deep and authoritative knowledge of the peoples and places of Egypt, the strength of the storytelling and characters make this, as it did his first novel, The Eye of Ra, a fascinating thriller.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Michael Asher, ex-Army, ex-SAS, is an explorer and writer. He lives in Kenya.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Adam Ibram, the Egyptian-born adviser to the US President, was brutally shot in a kebab house near the bazaar in old Cairo. This high profile murder brought both the local police and the FBI on the scene. So feisty, country-born Lieutenant Rashid is pulled off his current undercover job and reluctantly paired with arrogant, attractive Daisy Brooke, with her degree in Middle Eastern Studies.

The only thing the witness heard the dying man say was 'Firebird'...

The one clue that Sammy Rashid found at the site was an Islamic amulet belonging to the Sanusiya Brotherhood – a fundamentalist sect disbanded around 1917...

And in the bazaar the macabre, brutal killings continue. The locals blame it on a ghoul...

The combination of mystery and myth with contemporary scenes, the sense of the colour and violence of Cairo and of the heat and harshness of the desert, the vividness of the characters and the strength of the storytelling, make this, as it did Michael Asher's first novel – 'The Eye of Ra', a compelling, fascinating thriller.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0007102240
• ISBN 13: 9780007102242
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384