![]() ![]() ![]() Revolution is brewing which make the streets dangerous for any Non-Muslims. He’s not the only one who wants him away from the girl. A crooked Cairo policeman keeps popping in and warning him away from another beauty he’s met, a young German singer, Anna Mueller, he’s growing quite fond of. Things are not always as they seem though. A beautiful woman wants him to smuggle a valuable relic out of the country, Warned it will be dangerous, he doesn’t have much choice, needing money. Broke he finds his way to a bar, meets an Englishman, and gets offered a job. ![]() ![]() Pete Wells, a former Merchant marine among other things, is knocking around Cairo when he wakes up in a hotel room, robbed and unaware of how he got there. The Middle East, bars, political intrigue, beautiful women, crooked police, all there. Written in his younger days under the name Cameron Kay, it’s been forgotten for sixty years and never reprinted until this Hard Case Crime edition coming next month.ĭefinitely a pulp style, comparisons with Casablanca are not without merit. So I can’t say how it compares with the rest of his work. Let me start out by saying I’ve never read any Gore Vidal. ![]()
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