Cairo Mon Amour

by Stuart Campbell

Overview

October, 1973: Egypt is bracing for war. Cairo private investigator Pierre Farag is tidying up old cases and calling in debts when he stumbles on a plot to murder the notorious film star Zouzou Paris, his childhood sweetheart. At the same time, former British intelligence agents Mark Bellamy and Lucy Vickers are recalled to duty in Cairo to arrange the defection of a Soviet diplomat. As the outbreak of war approaches, Pierre, Lucy, Zouzou and Mark find themselves at the centre of a cynical diplomatic plot that will irrevocably change the course of their lives, and possibly the outcome of the war. Cairo Mon Amour is a gripping thriller and a poignant love story, based on the real-life deception campaign by the Egyptian intelligence services to conceal the date of the attack on Sinai. Espionage fans will be enthralled by Stuart Campbell’s evocation of Cairo during the Yom Kippur War. Cairo Mon Amour is the first novel of the Siranoush Trilogy.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165765728
Publisher:	Stuart Campbell
Publication date:	02/02/2022
Series:	The Siranoush Trilogy
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	420 KB

About the Author

Stuart Campbell began writing fiction in the eighties, but was diverted by the need to earn a living. After exiting the world of academia he restarted his affair with writing fiction in 2011.
Stuart's latest novel The True History of Jude is a genre-defying work that blends a dystopian thriller with a coming of age tale and a time-shift love story.
His Siranoush Trilogy includes the novels Cairo Mon Amour, Bury me in Valletta, and The Sunset Assassin. The three stories are stand-alone episodes in the tribulations of reluctant British spies Pierre Farag and his wife Zouzou Paris. The couple are exiled from Cairo to London in 1973, and then to Malta in 1975, ending their quest for freedom and anonymity in the northern Australian tropics in 1978.
In Stuart's An Englishman's Guide to Infidelity, a respectable Home Counties couple dabble in petty crime as they try to enliven a failing marriage. But a figure from the past tips them into a double murder plot. Could they really be killers?
Stuart was formerly a Professor of Linguistics and a Pro Vice Chancellor at Western Sydney University. He has published numerous books, chapters and research articles in the areas of translation studies and Arabic linguistics. Stuart holds the title of Emeritus Professor.
Born in London, Stuart has lived in Sydney since the seventies.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Countdown to a War 11

Chapter 1 A Time to be born, a Time to Die 13

Chapter 2 The People Advance like the Light 25

Chapter 3 School for Spies 44

Chapter 4 Does that Cockroach have Clearance? 59

Chapter 5 City of the Dead 74

Chapter 6 Turquoise 92

Chapter 7 Vous cherchez quelqu'un d'autre 111

Chapter 8 An Old Rolex 124

Chapter 9 Genocide Remembered 140

Chapter 10 A Candy-Striped Hat Box 157

Part 2 Dead Souls 173

Chapter 11 Men who'd Seen it All 175

Chapter 12 Comrade Boss 190

Chapter 13 Israeli Spy! 209

Part 3 Siranoush 229

Chapter 14 Solaris 231

Chapter 15 Allons-y Alonso 246

Chapter 16 Pluck up what is planted 273

Chapter 17 This Love Business 287

Chapter 18 The Cynthia 298

Part 4 Exile 313

Chapter 19 For the New Year 315

Chapter 20 A City of Little Cards 327

The Background to Cairo Mon Amour 343

Note on Arabic terms 355