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Deep Sahara
Leslie Croxford
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Description for Deep Sahara
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. .
Recovering from a nervous breakdown preceded by the death of his wife, Klaus Werner takes advice from a family friend and retreats to a monastery in the Algerian Sahara to sketch desert insects for a book. Upon arrival, however, he discovers a fresh crime scene: the monks have all been slaughtered as they went about their daily routine. Violent extremists, active in the area, are suspected. Numb and exhausted, Werner declines a police chief s offer of safe passage. Despite the shock of the murders, the desert seems to promise solace, a vast nullity against which Werner can take stock ... Read more
Recovering from a nervous breakdown preceded by the death of his wife, Klaus Werner takes advice from a family friend and retreats to a monastery in the Algerian Sahara to sketch desert insects for a book. Upon arrival, however, he discovers a fresh crime scene: the monks have all been slaughtered as they went about their daily routine. Violent extremists, active in the area, are suspected. Numb and exhausted, Werner declines a police chief s offer of safe passage. Despite the shock of the murders, the desert seems to promise solace, a vast nullity against which Werner can take stock ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Momentum Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911475125
SKU
V9781911475125
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Ref
99-50
About Leslie Croxford
Leslie Croxford is a British author and Senior Vice-President of the British University in Egypt. Born in Alexandria, he obtained a doctorate in History from Cambridge University. He has written one novel, Solomon's Folly (Chatto & Windus), and is completing his third.
Reviews for Deep Sahara
Leslie Croxford invites comparison with E.M. Forster and Lawrence Durrell.
The New Yorker
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