The Mamur Zapt and the Camel of Destruction - Softcover

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Michael Pearce was raised in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, where his fascination for language began. He later trained as a Russian interpreter but moved away from languages to follow an academic career, first as a lecturer in English and the History of Ideas, and then as an administrator. Michael Pearce now lives in London and is best known as the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books.

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Cairo, 1910: the end of the boom and everyone seems to have money troubles. Then one day a civil servant dies at his desk. Was it pressure of work or something nastier? The whiff of corruption is in the air, with even Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, seen to live beyond his means – and he's the one who's supposed to be investigating the affair.

Owen's attempts to do so, aided by unlikely allies, the Grand Mufti and the monstrous Ali, take him to the heart of such sinister organisations as the Khedival Agricultural Society. But he soon realises that money speaks louder than words in Edwardian Cairo, and that the rich are notoriously tricky. Will the Mamur Zapt be up to taking them on? And will he be in time to stop the Camel of Destruction running through the city?

‘This series continues to be the most consistently delightful in current detective fiction’
GERALD KAUFMAN, 'The Scotsman'

‘Another sparkling recreation in which Pearce's heart and art drily in the right place’
JOHN COLEMAN, 'Sunday Times'

‘A plot that flexes its coils as innocently as an asp’
PHILIP OAKES, 'Literary Review'