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What is Firebird about?

The murder in Cairo of Dr al-Ghali, Egyptian-born adviser to the US President, brought both the local police and the FBI to the scene. Feisty, country-born Lieutenant Sami is paired with the FBI agent, arrogant, attractive Daisy Brooke, with her degree in middle eastern studies from California. The only thing the dying man said was Firebird. The explosive mix of character and national interest was fuelled by the discovery at the murder scene of an amulet traced to the Sanusiya Brotherhood, a fundamentalist Muslim sect thought to have disappeared at the turn of the century. The Sanusiya appear to have been involved in the excavation in the Western Desert of a remarkable site where Camyses III, King of Persia, and his vast army, armour and gold bullion, disappeared in a powerful sandstorm. And the words Operation Firebird seem enough to have every door slammed against you The activities of a renegade group of Americans, apparently working for a secret organisation, of a strange Bedouin woman, always present just before violence occurs, and of the US Embassy and the various elements of Cairo police, make Sami and Daisys investigations both difficult and dangerous. The combination of E

Who reads Firebird?

Author

Michael Asher

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007102242

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction

Rating

3.41 / 5 (46 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14