Firebird - Hardcover

Michael Asher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 000225963X ISBN 13: 9780002259637

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

The new atmospheric thriller by the author of the outstanding The Eye of Ra. The murder in Cairo of Dr al-Ghali, Egyptian-born adviser to the US President, brought both the local police and the FBI to the scene. Feisty, country-born Lieutenant Sami is paired with the FBI agent, arrogant, attractive Daisy Brooke, with her degree in middle eastern studies from California. The only thing the dying man said was 'Firebird'. The explosive mix of character and national interest was fuelled by the discovery at the murder scene of an amulet traced to the Sanusiya Brotherhood, a fundamentalist Muslim sect thought to have disappeared at the turn of the century. The Sanusiya appear to have been involved in the excavation in the Western Desert of a remarkable site where Camyses III, King of Persia, and his vast army, armour and gold bullion, disappeared in a powerful sandstorm. And the words Operation Firebird seem enough to have every door slammed against you...The activities of a renegade group of Americans, apparently working for a secret organisation, of a strange Bedouin woman, always present just before violence occurs, and of the US Embassy and the various elements of Cairo police, make Sami and Daisy's investigations both difficult and dangerous. The combination of Egyptian myth and history with contemporary politics and violence, the author's deep and authoritative knowledge of the peoples and places of Egypt, the strength of the storytelling and characters make this, as it did his first novel, The Eye of Ra, a fascinating thriller.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Asher, ex-Army, ex-SAS, is an explorer and writer. He lives in Kenya.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 000225963X
• ISBN 13: 9780002259637
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384