The lion of Cairo
By: Scott Oden
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780312372934
Subjects: Fiction; Caliphs; Assassins; History
Description: Cairo, 1167 A.D. Egypt is bleeding and the scent draws her enemies in like sharks. But the Caliph of Cairo has an unexpected ally: the Old Man of the Mountain. It is he who holds the ultimate power of life and death over the warring factions of the Moslem world, and it is he who sends his greatest weapon into Egypt, to serve the Caliph. He is but a single man but he is an Assassin: the one they call the Emir of the Knife.