The Last Cut Paperback / softback
by Michael Pearce
Paperback / softback
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Praise for The Last Cut... "Oh, this is just a fine novel....With great and gentlehumour, excellent dialogue and a twisty plot...Pearceenthralls and entertains us....Great story, marvelously executed."-Carl Brookins, author of the Michael Tanner mysteriesFor millennia, Egypt has depended upon the waters of the Nileto flood and fertilize the land.
A barrage or dam-like structureseveral miles above Cairo controls the flow of water to southernEgypt through a series of regulators.
Now, someone hasattempted to blow up one of them. Damaging a regulator is not a petty matter, so Gareth Owen,the Mamur Zapt, Chief of Cairo's Secret Police, is hurriedlysummoned.
He hasn't a clue what a regulator is. Nor can heidentify the mysterious Lizard Man who seems to have a grudgeagainst the whole Egyptian irrigation system.
But he knows thatthe ceremonial cutting of the temporary dam thrown up eachyear across the mouth of the Khalig Canal restarts the wholeirrigation cycle and is cause for great celebration.
He also knowsthat this will be the last cut before the canal is filled in and amodern tramway built over it.
It's a plan many Cairenes do notsupport. Then a young woman's body is discovered in the drycanal.
Is this the traditional ritual sacrifice? A sign of sabotage?A diversion? Or just plain murder?Michael Pearce was raised in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
He trained asa Russian interpreter but later moved to an academic career.
Henow lives in London and is best known as the author of the award-winningMamur Zapt books.
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- Pages:214 pages, 401:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Matte Lam
- Publisher:Poisoned Pen Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2004
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- ISBN:9781590581766
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:214 pages, 401:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Matte Lam
- Publisher:Poisoned Pen Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2004
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- ISBN:9781590581766
