Kindle Edition
Synergebooks
Category:
Action/Thriller
Publisher: Synergebooks
ISBN-10: B000ZVQQN4
Type: Fiction
Kidnap, company politics and intrigue in modern day Cairo.
Set against a background of Islamic terrorism and Oil Company politics amid the deserts of Egypt, FOR THE LOVE OF DAVID is a story of romance, relationships, suspense and intrigue.
Suicide bombings, kidnap and other evidence of Muslim activism are an ever present threat. This book is the story of a particular kidnap, that of a young child. David is the son of American oil company executive Ben Carter and his wife Anna.
Anna and Ben’s marriage is crumbling and their early weeks in Cairo are marked by friction. The narrative opens when they are still in a hotel, waiting for their house to be made ready for them. There are fundamentalist riots, tanks in the streets and armed guards on the roof of the hotel...
Excerpt
The sweet, almost sickly scent of the white blanket of jasmine, that scrambles over the high mesh surrounding the tennis courts, has an unusual clarity to it in the warm evening air. Normally, the smell would be only faintly caught amongst the background stench of diesel, a light touch just recognised in the midst of the overwhelming shroud of pollution that envelopes the old city from dawn until well into the small hours of the night. This particular night it lingers in the nostrils, heavy and sensuous.
Strolling by her husband’s side through the hotel gardens, Anna’s senses register the subtle change in the air but her mind is too engrossed to take note. As they pause to sit down on one of the rough stone benches at the side of the courts it is something else that penetrates her reverie - a gradual awareness that apart from the soft, regular plop, plop of the tennis balls bouncing off racket and tarmac, for once there is very little other sound. It is not only the scent in the warm, soft February evening air which all at once imposes itself on her conscious mind but the uncanny stillness.
A low rumble alerts her further, a deep sound in the distance, not one that is a normal part of the cacophony of Cairo city life. It is a noise that she can’t for the moment place and it drags her unwillingly into the here and now. She had been engrossed and she resents the interruption. The noise is faint at first, but definitely not something to be mistaken for the normal continuous hum of city traffic.
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