City of jackals

FINDING REFUGE CAN BE DEADLY. More trouble on the streets of Cairo in a gripping new investigation for 'one of crime fiction's most interesting and sympathetic detectives' (The Times)A severed head washes up on the banks of the Nile. The police turn a blind eye. It is just another victim in a series of ritual killings of refugees.

Distracted from his hunt for a missing boy, Makana feels the pull of his Sudanese past and is impelled to seek justice for the murdered emigrants.

In the dark heart of Cairo, Makana soon discovers the two cases may be connected in dangerous and unexpected ways.