The Mamur Zapt and the Men Behind (Mamur Zapt, Book 4)

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From the award-winning Michael Pearce comes an engrossing murder mystery set in the Cairo of the 1900s. After a series of attacks on public officials, the Mamur Zapt is called in to investigate.
Cairo in the 1900s. While riding home, Fairclough of Customs is shot at from behind. It is the first of many similar attacks all seemingly aimed at public officials. The Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairos secret police, is told to catch the killer and quickly.

His efforts to do so take him into Cairos student quarter and out to a remote rural estate. And require him to handle a fading Pasha and a dangerous gypsy girl whose claims he has to balance against those of his fiery Egyptian mistress.

Reviews

Pearces dry humour matches his skill at evocative plot-stirring Sunday Times

Enjoyable original and charming Independent

A wily protagonist and racing narrative combine for perfect entertainment Time Out

Highly recommended Sunday Telegraph

Author Bio

Michael Pearce grew up in the (then) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan among the various tensions he draws on for his award-winning Mamur Zapt series. He returned there to teach, and retains a human rights interest in the area. In between whiles his career has followed the standard academic rakes progress from teaching to writing to editing to administration. He finds international politics a pallid imitation of academic ones. He lives in London. He is now a full-time writer. He was awarded the Crime Writers Associations prestigious Last Laugh Award for funniest crime novel of the year for the Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt. Michael Pearce is also the author of the crime novels featuring Dmitri Kameron, set in Tsarist Russia of the 1890s.