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Contents
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Epigraph
Cover designer’s note
Prompted by seeing the renderings of my two murals for…
Introduction
Picture me, a scruffy tourist in bush shirt and slacks,…
Prologue
In the final months of 1941, General Erwin Rommel –…
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‘I like escorting prisoners,’ said Captain Albert Cutler, settling back…
2
The region called El Birkeh, where so many of Cairo’s…
3
At Cairo the water of the Nile divides to make…
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They’d given Jimmy Ross his predecessor’s quarters. He was in…
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Having finished her shift at the Base Hospital, Peggy West…
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Peggy’s fears, about taking Alice Stanhope to the Base Hospital,…
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No one claimed to remember when or where or why…
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To the casual observer, the soldiers seemed to belong here.
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‘I like them. I think those two are the nicest…
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‘Did you hear that it rained in the desert?’ said…
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‘The balloon’s gone up,’ said Lionel Marker as he pressed…
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Bab-el-Hadid barracks was a curious-looking, three-storey structure, built to look…
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Alice Stanhope had learned to drive her father’s four-litre Brough…
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Harry Wechsler had been thinking about Alice Stanhope right up…
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This was a different world. In this strip of desert…
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Peggy West had seen very little of Prince Piotr until…
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‘It’s hush hush. Top damned secret, old boy.’ Wallingford grinned…
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‘Alice tells me you have been thinking of going to…
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‘It will soon be time to move on,’ Solomon told…
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Robin Darymple was happier than he had been for months.
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‘This is my favourite time of year,’ said Wallingford suddenly,…
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Alice got the news from Peggy West. Peggy spent fifteen…
Postscript
About the Author
Other Books by Len Deighton
