num_pages: 397
description: The ancient city of Cairo is a feverish tangle of the old and the new of the superrich and the desperately poor with inequality and corruption everywhere. It's a place where grudges and long-buried secrets can fester and where people can disappear in the blink of an eye.Makana a former Sudanese police inspector forced to flee to Cairo is now struggling to make ends meet as a private detective. In need of money he takes a case from the notoriously corrupt mogul Saad Hanafi owner of a Cairo soccer team whose star player Adil Romario has gone missing. Soon Makana is caught up in a mystery that takes him into the treacherous underbelly of his adopted city encountering Muslim extremists Russian gangsters vengeful women and a desperate mother hunting for her missing daughter-a trail that leads him back into his own story stirring up painful personal memories and bringing him face-to-face with an old enemy from his past Published on the anniversary of the revolution in Egypt The Golden Scales is an elegantly written thrilling story set in a city of upheaval chaos and corruption.
language: English
title: The Golden Scales
publisher: Bloomsbury USA