(Paperback)

By walking the same ground as Dumas - from Haiti to
the Pyramids, Paris to the prison cell at Taranto Reiss, like the novelist
before him, triumphantly resurrects this forgotten hero.

Entrances from first to last.

(Paperback)

The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world.

Tom Reiss first came across the man who called himself 'Kurban Said' when he went to the ex-USSR to research the oil business on the Caspian Sea, and discovered a novel instead.