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The Golden Scales: A Makana Investigation
Parker Bilal
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Description for The Golden Scales: A Makana Investigation
Paperback. A major new detective series set in modern-day Cairo - moving between its labyrinthine back streets, and its shining tower blocks - and featuring Makana, an exiled Sudanese private investigator, escaping his own troubled past Series: The Makana Mysteries. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 200 x 26. Weight in Grams: 292. A Makana Mystery. 416 pages. A major new detective series set in modern-day Cairo - moving between its labyrinthine back streets, and its shining tower blocks - and featuring Makana, an exiled Sudanese private investigator, escaping his own troubled past. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FF. Dimension: 135 x 200 x 26. Weight: 292.
Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a dangerous and glittering world. Hanafi is the owner of a star-studded football team and their most valuable player has vanished. His disappearance threatens to bring down not only the businessman's private empire but also the entire country. Makana encounters Muslim extremists, Russian gangsters and a desperate mother hunting for her missing daughter, as his search ... Read more
Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a dangerous and glittering world. Hanafi is the owner of a star-studded football team and their most valuable player has vanished. His disappearance threatens to bring down not only the businessman's private empire but also the entire country. Makana encounters Muslim extremists, Russian gangsters and a desperate mother hunting for her missing daughter, as his search ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
The Makana Mysteries
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408830369
SKU
V9781408830369
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About Parker Bilal
Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published seven critically acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. He has written four Makana Investigations, titled The Golden Scales, Dogstar Rising, The Ghost Runner and The Burning Gates. Born in London, Mahjoub has lived at various times in the UK, Sudan, Cairo and Denmark. ... Read more
Reviews for The Golden Scales: A Makana Investigation
Richly evocative mystery novel ... delivers much more than efficient intrigue. Via the experiences of a family exiled from Sudan, we see and feel all the drama of Egypt on the brink of change
Independent
The Golden Scales shows modern Cairo as a superbly exciting, edgy and dangerous setting for crime fiction. Parker Bilal has delivered an absorbing, ... Read more
Independent
The Golden Scales shows modern Cairo as a superbly exciting, edgy and dangerous setting for crime fiction. Parker Bilal has delivered an absorbing, ... Read more