Firebird

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.