num_pages: 466
description: East Africa, 1935. A nation sits at the brink of war, a city is fraught with conspiracy, and at the Cataract Café in Cairo, a colorful cast of characters - professional hunter Anton Rider, his estranged wife and her Italian lover, the pampered American twins Bernadette and Harriet Mills, a German freebooter who has stolen a fortune in silver from the Italian army, the Goan dwarf and café proprietor Olivio Alevado - gathers to gamble with destiny.
language: English
title: A Cafe on the Nile
titlecomplete: A Cafe on the Nile
genres: Fiction, Egypt, World War II, Historical, Historical Fiction, Africa, Adventure, Novels
ratings_count: 436
places: Egypt, Cairo
series: Anton Rider
publisher: Da Capo Press