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The golden scales : a Makana mystery
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- ISBN: 1608197948 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781608197941 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
xvi, 397 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2012.
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| Subject: | Makana (Fictitious character) Fiction Missing persons Fiction Cairo (Egypt) Fiction Egypt Fiction |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Howe Library | M BIL | 31254002985709 | Upper level | Available | - |
Summary:
"The ancient city of Cairo is a feverish tangle of the old and the new, of the superrich and the desperately poor, with inequality and corruption everywhere. It's a place where grudges and long-buried secrets can fester, and where people can disappear in the blink of an eye. Makana, a former Sudanese police inspector forced to flee to Cairo, is now struggling to make ends meet as a private detective. In need of money, he takes a case from the notoriously corrupt mogul Saad Hanafi, owner of a Cairo soccer team, whose star player, Adil Romario, has gone missing. Soon, Makana is caught up in a mystery that takes him into the treacherous underbelly of his adopted city, encountering Muslim extremists, Russian gangsters, vengeful women, and a desperate mother hunting for her missing daughter-a trail that leads him back into his own story, stirring up painful personal memories and bringing him face-to-face with an old enemy from his past... Published on the anniversary of the revolution in Egypt, The Golden Scales is an elegantly written, thrilling story set in a city of upheaval, chaos, and corruption"--