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Thrilling, action-packed historical novel set in Egypt during the time of the Crusades...
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Scott Oden was born in 1967 in Indiana, and raised in rural North Alabama where he still lives. His fascination with Egypt and the ancient world began at school when a teacher showed his class slides from the Tutankhamun Exhibition. He studied history and English at the University of Alabama before pursuing the usual variety of odd jobs - from delivering pizza to clerking at a video store. His previous novels were the acclaimed Men of Bronze and Memnon.
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It is the middle of the twelfth century . . .
On the banks of the Nile, from a palace of gold and lapis lazuli, the young Caliph Rashid al-Hasan rules as a figurehead over a crumbling empire. Cairo is alive with intrigue. In the shadow of the Grey Mosque, generals and emirs jockey for position under the scheming eyes of a venal grand vizier. In the crowded souks and narrow alleys, warring factions employ murder and terror to silence their opponents. Egypt bleeds. And the scent draws her enemies in like sharks: the swaggering Kurd, Shirkuh, who serves the pious Sultan of Damascus, and Amalric, the Christian king of Jerusalem, whose greed is insatiable and whose knights of the Temple are hungry for a fight.
And yet all is not lost. There is an old man who lives on a remote mountainside in a distant land. He holds the ultimate power of life and death over the warring factions of the Muslim world - and decides to come to the Caliph's aid. He sends his greatest weapon into Egypt. He sends a single man. An Assassin. The one they call the Emir of the Knife . . .
Masterfully blending history and adventure, the bestselling author of Men of Bronze brings the past to exhilarating life in a rich, exciting novel full of intrigue and thunderous battle set against the true jewel of the Arabian Nights, medieval Cairo during the time of the Crusades.
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