Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Born in London and brought up in Khartoum, Sudan, Mahjoub has lived in Britain, Denmark, and currently Spain. He is an award-winning literary novelist under his own name, and this is the fifth installment of his acclaimed Makana Mystery series, following The Golden Scales, Dogstar Rising, The Ghost Runner, and The Burning Gates.
This fifth installment in the Makana mystery series should send you back to the first four . . . Entertaining and exciting but also revealing, the series spins yarns while exposing the reality that Egypt is not all tombs and Pharaohs. - Publishers Weekly, 9 Essential Books by Arab Writers This excellent series . . . captures the climate of fear and rage that has come to define life in a perpetual war zone. - Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review on THE GHOST RUNNER [Makana has become] one of crime fiction's most interesting and sympathetic detectives . . . [Bilal] gets better and better. - The Times on THE BURNING GATES Makana is a compelling, even an archetypal, hero . . . [A] must-read series. - starred review, Booklist on THE BURNING GATES Sharp, witty, politically astute thrillers . . . Makana's place as an exile on the margins of society . . . makes him the perfect 21st-century detective, capable of uncovering the many guises of power. - Al Jazeera America on THE GHOST RUNNER
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