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Thursday at Noon: A Mideast Political Thriller by William F. Brown (apparently not the
playwright of the same name, complete with initial), an old-school historical-period-set espionage action/adventure thriller set in 1960s Egypt, originally out from St. Martin's Press in 1987.
Cairo, 1962, and the Middle East is about to go up in flames. Richard Thomson is already having a bad day when someone leaves a corpse lying on the rear steps of Thomson's hotel. Its head had been lopped off like a ripe melon, placed where it could look back down at its own body. A message? No doubt about it.
Thomson is a burned-out CIA agent who's been banished here to the dust bin on the Nile until the Agency could figure out an even worse place to dump him. The body belongs to Mahmoud Yussuf, a fat, petty thief and some-time spy, who is selling photographs of a long-abandoned RAF base out in the Egyptian desert. But what do the photos have to do with a dead Israeli Mossad agent, Nazi rocket scientists, the fanatical Moslem Brotherhood, an egotistical US Ambassador and Boston politician who is trying to cut his own deal with Nasser, and two missing Egyptian tank regiments? They might start the next Arab-Israeli War or stop it; but what can one thoroughly discredited, over-the-hill agent do about them?
Alone and on the run, no one believes Thomson's story -- not the CIA, the US Ambassador, and most assuredly not Captain Hassan Saleh, Chief of the Homicide Bureau of the Cairo Police. Saleh wants to hang Thomson for murder. Like Night of the Generals, this is a murder mystery wrapped inside a real-life, well-researched historic crisis. The slums of Cairo are a tinder box of discontent and the first faint whiffs of a military coup against the shaky, new government of Abdel Gamal Nasser are in the air. Tick Toc, Tick Toc!
In this CIA action adventure and suspense thriller, if Thomson doesn't solve the mystery, something is about to blow up in his face, at Noon on Thursday.