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The Mouth of the Crocodile is the next to last title (for now, 2016) in Michael Pearce's excellent IMO Mamur Zapt series. This is one of my top five favorite series.

Crocodile bounces around a lot in price, but per eReaderIQ, £2.54 is the lowest it has been in the UK.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mouth-Croco...dp/B00SHUMNAA/

Spoiler:

“A lovingly detailed portrait of Egypt during the Great War. The result is a bit like a police procedural reimagined by Douglas Adams” Kirkus Reviews on The Bride Box

Atbara, Sudan, 1913. A dead man is fished out of the River Nile. An accident – or something more sinister? A visiting Pasha from the Royal Household believes it was murder – and that he himself was the intended target. He insists that the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Khedive’s Secret Police, escorts him on his return train journey to Cairo, for protection.

It’s to be an eventful voyage. Matters take an unexpected turn when the train is stranded in the desert following a sandstorm. With the help of English schoolboy Jamie Nicholson, the Mamur Zapt pursues his investigations, convinced that at least one of his fellow passengers has a secret to hide. And what was the Pasha really doing in that remote corner of the Sudan? Could the Mamur Zapt’s deepest fears be true? Could he really be about to uncover a conspiracy against the British?