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Name: City of the Sun

Author: Juliana Maio
Year: 2014
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Genres/categories:
Historical fiction
Cultures: Egypt, Africa

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ISBNs:
9781626340510
162634051X

As the Second World War rages, the city known as "Paris on the Nile" plays host to an international set who seem more interested in polo matches and swanky nightclubs than the Germans' unrelenting advance across North Africa. Meanwhile, as refugees, soldiers, and spies stream into the city, the Nazis conspire with the emerging Muslim Brotherhood to fuel the Egyptian people's seething resentment against their British overlords. Ambitious American journalist Mickey Connolly has come to Cairo to report on the true state of the war. Facing expulsion by the British for not playing by their rules, he accepts a deal from the U.S. embassy that allows him to remain in the country. His covert mission: to infiltrate the city's thriving Jewish community and locate arefugee nuclear scientist who could be key to America's new weapons program. But Mickey is not the only one looking.