A Talk With the Angels - Hardcover

Meiring, Desmond

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312784767 ISBN 13: 9780312784768

Publisher: St Martins Pr

Synopsis

The discovery of a murdered, tortured body plunges Daniel Gad of the Cairo police into a conspiratorial maelstrom where sworn political enemies join to accomplish their malevolent goal

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Politics make for strange bedfellows in Desmond Meiring's (The Brinkman) eighth novel. Colonel Tarek Daniel Gad of Cairo's anti-terrorist squad meets with a disgruntled member of the Angels of the Sword, a tight-knit group of religious fundamentalists who intend to make Egypt a fully Islamic state. Before Gad can penetrate their defenses, his informant is dead, a cycle that repeats itself as he begins to investigate the upsurge in terrorist activity. It emanates from a cell led by Abbas Sidki, a hero of Sadat's October war. On the fourth anniversary of Sadat's assassination, Sidki will be aiming a highpowered rifle at a motorcade carrying Egyptian President Mubarak and the American President. Orchestrating this coup are an Englishman, an Israeli and a Libyan, an unlikely triumvirate with political and personal reasons for engineering Mubarak's death. Meiring's smooth pace occasionally bogs down in the labyrinth of Middle Eastern politics, but a humorous delivery, full-blooded characters, and rich, crowded Egyptian street scenes go far toward fixing these flaws. January 27
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

An Egyptian secret policeman devoted to Anwar Sadat's moderate politics tracks the Angels of the Sword, a cult pledged to violent overthrow of moderate Arab states. The Angels are tapped for the assassin's role by a powerful trioan Englishman, a Zionist, and a Libyanwho can finance the master plot to destabilize the Egyptian presidency. They plan to elevate a Khomeini-like figure, thus exacerbating the Mideast situation until a new balance of power is achieved. The policeman's tolerance masks a steely opposition to Arab extremism. A charming American journalist becomes entangled in the web and Meiring (author of The Brinkman ) uses her as a foil for the education of the reader. Exotic rhythms and tensions add to this skillful and authentic tale of murder for the proverbial good cause. Barbara Conaty, Medical Coll. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• ISBN 10: 0312784767
• ISBN 13: 9780312784768
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English