The golden scales [electronic resource] : a Makana mystery / Parker Bilal.
"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"--Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781608197958 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1608197956 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 397 p.)
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General. Cairo (Egypt) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Mystery fiction. Electronic books. |