Perseus Academic: A Cafe on the Nile by Bartle Bull

East Africa, 1935. A nation sits at the brink of war, a city is fraught with conspiracy, and at the Cataract Café 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 café 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 Café on the Nile achieves the aim of fiction: The reader gladly suspends disbelief.—Houston Chronicle [Bull] is a terrific novelist.—San Jose Mercury News