CONTENTS

      A Note on the Glossary at the End of this Book

  1. South Ghazaliya

  2. Barriers

  3. The Lion of Akkad

  4. Blackboard Rage

  5. Maroon Investigations

  6. Tea Party at the House of Furies

  7. Heavily Drugged and Demented

  8. House of Many Doors

  9. Inside the Watchmaker

10. Further Inside the Watchmaker

11. Lost in Space

12. Reprisals

13. Roots of the Lion

14. Wards of the State

15. Old Men

16. The Belly of the Beast

17. Gun Day

18. Empty Nest

19. Al Kindi

20. Telomeres

21. Hand in the Jar

22. Meeting of the Minds

23. Into the Abattoir

24. Dungeons and Dragons

25. Hunters

26. Death by Kibbeh

27. Ministry

28. The Strange Island of Dr. Sawad

29. The Journals of Dr. Sawad

30. Burning Books

31. Unexpected Help

32. Interview with a Lion

33. Lion’s Story

34. The Circus Is in Town

35. Born in Fire

36. Birds of Peace

Epilogue

Glossary

Acknowledgements

About the Author