num_pages: 384
description: On the banks of the ageless Nile from a palace of gold and lapis lazuli the young Caliph rules as a figurehead over a crumbling empire. Cairo is awash in deception. In the shadow of the Gray Mosque generals and emirs jockey for position under the scheming eyes of the powerful grand vizier. Egypt bleeds and the scent draws her enemies in like sharks. Yet the Caliph has an unexpected allythe Old Man of the Mountain who holds the power of life and death over the warring factions of the Moslem world and he sends his greatest weapon into Egypt. He sends a single man. An Assassin. The one they call the Emir of the Knife.... Like the works of Robert E. Howard and Chabons Gentlemen of the Road Oden masterfully blends history and adventure to create a rollicking tale of intrigue and thunderous battle set against the true jewel of the Arabian Nights medieval Cairo.
language: English
title: The Lion of Cairo
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books