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Cover of The Golden Scales

The Golden Scales

✍ Scribed by Parker Bilal


Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
268 KB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


A lost child. A missing hero. A bitter rivalry. In Cairo the ghosts of the past are stirring...The ancient city of Cairo is a whirling mix of the oldand the new, where fates collide and the super rich rub shoulders with thedesperate and the dispossessed. It is a place where ambition and corruption gohand in hand, and where people can disappear in the blink of an eye. Makana is a former police inspector who fled for hislife from his native Sudan seven years ago. Down on his luck and hauntedby the past, he lives on a rickety Nile houseboat. When the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi hires him to track down a missing person Makana is in noposition to refuse him. Hanafi, whose past is as shady as his fortune is glittering, is the owner of Cairo's star-studded football team. His mos tvaluable player has just vanished and Adil Romario's disappearance threatens to bring down not only Hanafi's private empire, but the entire country. But why should the city's...


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