Cairo Gambit'An enthralling thriller hypnotically readable' ANDREW TAYLOR In the heat of the desert, will the trail go cold? Cairo, 1938 Archie Nevenden is many things: amateur archaeologist; theatre impresario; absent father; potential defector. And now, he's a missing person. His daughter, Prim, hasn't seen him for nearly fifteen years. But she's never given up on him, and now she's on her way to Cairo to assist in the search. Harry Taverner claims to work for

‘Gripping and pacy

But a chance meeting leads to his involvement with the Mozarts of Salzburg

Similarly dispossessed of their land

The haves live in luxury within the small regions that remain unpolluted while the have-nots inhabit a toxic suburbia full of terrorism

Chief Inspector Les Fletcher

Or at least if there are

cinematic tour-de-force

this tale of five brothers coming of age in a house with no rules brims with energy

Placing this eccentric family in isolation after two world wars and at the beginning of our aggressive financial culture

the mob unleashes its hatred

criminal underbelly of the city

Teenage perplexity displaces childhood dreams of Arthurian knights as her home turns into a place where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life