Parker Bilal
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review 1: Ideaal vakantieboek. Het verhaal speelt zich af rond een van oorsprong Soedanese rechercheur in Cairo die ingehuurd wordt om onderzoek te doen naar de verdwijning van een bekende voetballer. Tegelijkertijd wordt hij geconfronteerd met de moord op een Engelse vrouw die al jaren la...
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review 1: More or less a traditional hard-boiled detective story but set in Egypt. Makana has all the earmarks of a private investigator located in, say, Los Angeles: poverty, past tragedy, and most of all a refusal to play it safe. But the story is based in Egypt, and Bilal (which is ac...
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review 1: If you want to understand the Arab Spring you might want to read these mysteries. Bilal captures the hopelessness that the average Egyptian has about his or her government. Makana, a Sudanese exile, is a good man to have on your side as some urchins and a reporter soon find out. ...