A Cafe on the Nile

East Africa, 1935. A nation sits at the brink of war, a city is fraught with conspiracy, and at the Cataract Caf in Cairo, a colorful cast of characters - professional hunter Anton Rider, his estranged wife and her Italian lover, the pampered American twins Bernadette and Harriet Mills, a German freebooter who has stolen a fortune in silver from the Italian army, the Goan dwarf and caf proprietor Olivio Alevado - gathers to gamble with destiny. Pulses with entertainment value . . . The sort of yarn that can keep you up late at night . . . [A] spirited, sensuous, hot-blooded evocation of a rich and eventful historical world - Richard Bernstein, New York Times A breathtakingly entertaining historical novel . . . packed with daring exploits and sinister intrigues, with larger-than-life characters and exotic locales - Orlando Sentinel An enthralling novel - Booklist [A] rattling good blockbuster yarn - Publishers Weekly A Caf on the Nile achieves the aim of fiction: The reader gladly suspends disbelief. - Houston Chronicle [Bull] is a terrific novelist. - San Jose Mercury News