The end of sleep
By: Rowan Somerville
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor; BBC Audiobooks Ltd.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781408413333; 9781408413340
Subjects: Journalists; Fiction; Kidnapping; Tunnels; Treasure troves
Description: A tale of modern-day Cairo. Fin, an Irish journalist with little more than a rumpled linen suit to his name, wakes at dawn with a fierce hangover and an excruciating bruise on his thigh. As the first prayer call of the day sounds over the ancient city, Fin stumbles into an exotic adventure that will take him to the very edge of his courage, his endurance and his sense of self. He seeks a story - a story about treasure - and to find it, he must first find his friend Farouk, the mercurial teller of tales, who alone knows what Fin needs to hear. Fuelled by whisky and a thousand glasses of tea Fin pursues his quest under the shadow of the Great Pyramid, through crowded kebab shops and into the great emptiness of the desert itself.
Notes: Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008.