The slums of Cairo are a tinder box of discontent and the first faint whiffs of a military coup against the shaky new government are in the air... Burned-out CIA Agent Richard Thomson was already having a very bad day when someone left a corpse lying on the rear steps of his hotel. If he doesn't solve the mystery, something is about to blow up in Thomson's face at Noon on Thursday...
Ken Follett's The Key to Rebecca;
Furst's Spies of the Balkans;
Jack Higgins' The Eagle Has Landed