from the back:

"A tourist is kidnapped from the terrace of Shepheard's Hotel - 'about the most conspicuous place in Cairo,' Captain Owen commented bitterly. As Mamur Zapt, head of Egypt's political CID, he was responsible for getting him back.

Was it just an ordinary kidnapping, a deliberately symbolic blow at British prestige or a sinister campaign directed at tourism? What lay behind the Khedive's sudden interest in market gardening? And who was the missing dragoman?

It is in the donkey-vous, the base of Cairo's lowly, but enterprising donkey-boys, that Owen finds the answer to these puzzles - though not quite the one he expected."

These are great weekend books. I always have such fun with them.

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