The Mamur Zapt and the Camel of Destruction (Mamur Zapt, Book 7)

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In this classic mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, a powerful politician is murdered in Cairo in the 1900s and the Mamur Zapt is called in to investigate
Cairo, 1910. The end of the boom and everyone seems to have money troubles. Then one day a civil servant dies at his desk. Was it pressure of work or something nastier The whiff of corruption is in the air, with even Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, under suspicion

Owens investigation takes him to the heart of a sinister organization. But will he be up to taking them on And will he be in time to stop the Camel of Destruction running through the city

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Praise for Michael Pearce:

Remarkable Daily Telegraph

Highly recommended Sunday Telegraph

Splendid wittily rich a born novelist Sunday Times

Enjoyable original and charming Independent

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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.