| Annotation: | The third instalment in Jon Courtenay Grimwood`s critically acclaimed series of Ashraf Bey mysteries
Detective. Diplomat. Uncle. Killer.
Ashraf Bey has been many things since arriving in El Iskandryia from Seattle. One thing he hasn`t been, as yet, is a son to Moncef, Emir of Tunis - the father Raf has still to meet. Of course, Raf doesn`t believe the Emir is his father anyway. (Given his mother`s insistence that he`s the son of a Swedish hitch hiker).
And now it may be too late, since the rumours that don`t have Emir Moncef escaping assassination have him hovering on the edge of death. Despite refusing a plea for help from the Emir`s chief of security, Raf still finds himself being drawn towards Tunis. It seems he has his own part in an unfolding political crisis that began decades earlier with US anti-globalisation riots and the Emir`s refusal to ratify the 2005 UN Accord on Biotechnology. |
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