Harry Black & The Egyptian Conspiracy — Ron McGraw

The Middle East is a boiling cauldron of extreme poverty, religious intolerance, and frustrated passions. All are volatile ingredients that are brilliantly illuminated in this timely novel by Ron McGraw. Shortly after a massacre at the Giza pyramids, Harry Black arrives in Cairo to negotiate a contract with the Egyptian military. Unbeknownst to the investigating Egyptian secret police, the massacre is merely a first step in a series of events conceived by a religious mystic, Mahmoud, to oust the government. Mahmoud's right hand and co-conspirator is a notorious and brutal assassin known in the Arab world as Hashim. When Harry inadvertently meets Hashim, who is forced by circumstances into using his real name, the stage is set for a clash in the streets of Cairo that ultimately shakes the country. But that is only one plot in this tale of duplicitous intrigue; there are more….