num_pages: 224
description: Cairo 1912. The Pasha receives an unexpected gift: a traditional Bride Box. When opened however the box contains an unwelcome jolt from the past  one which connects with practices long thought dead. At the same time a little girl is discovered riding under a train from Luxor  and the Mamur Zapt Head of the Khedives Secret Police is called in to investigate. An Englishman squeezed between the demands of a world about to disappear and the emerging needs of a world about to come the Mamur Zapt finds himself confronting a political storm as the end of British rule approaches and his investigations uncover a tangled web of family loyalties and betrayals with its roots in a slave trade long supposed to have been stamped out in Egypt.
language: English
title: The Bride Box
publisher: Severn House