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Nile Shadows (The Jerusalem Quartet #3)
On a clear night in 1942 a hand grenade exploded in a Cairo slum, killing one man instantly. That man is Stern, an obscure gunrunner and morphine addict whose death should be of no significance during the darkest days of the century. In the Western Desert the Germans are advancing from victory to victory, and Rommel's powerful Afrika Corps is threatening to overrun Egypt a...more
Paperback, 478 pages
Published
November 28th 2002
by Old Earth Books
(first published 1983)
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"So it strikes me there are no commonplace people in the crowd, said Joe, and no innocents in the game of life really. We all seem to be double and triple agents with unknown sources and unsuspected lines of control, reporting a little here and a little there as we try to manage our secret networks of feeling and doing, our own little complex networks of life..." (Chp 18, 'Crypt/Mirror', 336-7)
Nile Shadows is a sort of Heart of Darkness/Citizen Kane, where Joe O'Sullivan Beare is brought in by a...more
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