Firebird

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Sammy Rashid, Cairo's maverick detective, is assigned the hopeless case: a political hot potato made even worse by his being harnessed to an FBI partner, covering the American interest.The only clue is a charm connected to the disappearance of a Persian king, his army, and his gold centuries earlier. How could that be of interest now - unless it is related to its use as a symbol by a defunct Islamic fundamentalist group?And the killings continue ... Cairo is seized by the fear of the unidentified killer.A tense, vivid thriller, steeped in the mysteries of the past, amid the alleyways of Cairo.