Name: The Men Behind

Author: Michael Pearce
Year: 1991
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9781590580523
1590580524
While riding home to lunch on his donkey, Fairclough of Customs is rudely unseated by shots fired from behind. The incident is but the first of a series of attacks seemingly aimed at public officials. Even Captain Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's Secret Police, barely escapes. Is a sinister campaign to undermine foreign rule under way? And who are "the men behind"? True, the Nationalist movement is rising after thirty years of the British Protectorate, and the new Liberal Government in London is more sympathetic than the heavy-handed Conservatives and Cromer to local rule. But can Owen discount more mundane agendas? Under orders to act quickly, Owen delves into maneuverings at the Khedive's court and the goals of a commercial delegation. His investigations not only carry him in to the city's student quarter but out into the countryside and onto a rural estate. Along the way he juggles a Pasha whose political star is fading, a bomb-wielding Berber, and the knife-happy gypsy Soraya who seriously annoys Owen's main squeeze, the fiery and lovely Zeinab, herself the daughter of a pasha. Which of these explosive mixes is most likely to prove injurious to the Mamur Zapt as well as to the government he serves?.... The Men Behind is the fourth in a delightful tongue-in-cheek series after The Mamur Zapt the The Return of the Carpet, The Night of the Dog, and The Donkey-vous.
This book is part of the "Mamur Zapt" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"The Mark of the Pasha"
First published in 2008
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"A Cold Touch of Ice"
First published in 2000
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"The Mingrelian Conspiracy"
First published in 1995
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"The Snake Catcher's Daughter"
First published in 1994
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"The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile"
First published in 1992
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"The Mamur Zapt and the Men Behind"
First published in 1991
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"The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous"
First published in 1990
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"The Night of the Dog"
First published in 1989
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