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4.0
An interesting and different series set in Egypt. It features a former Sudanese policeman now a PI in Cairo. Makana is hired by a lawyer's wife to check him for adultery and ends up being hired by the lawyer to investigate who killed a young girl. The search takes him to the remote but beautiful Siwa Oasis in the Sahara on the border with Libya. Makana ends up investigating another murder in the town that occurs just as he arrives. It's a small town with a dark past. Oh and there's a terrorism angle as the book is set right after 9/11 and involves a dissident who is no more than a thug. The thug is the murdered girl's father. Makana is the outsider and his adventures around Siwa take on an interesting but slow and tantalizing pace as more murders occur and corruption and ghosts are discovered. The ending of this book is quite a shock and it's Ludlum-like in the manner of intrigue, twists and turns, and bloodshed. Corruption, greed, and saving face are what's it all about.
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