Лучшие книги Паркера Билала

What starts with the gruesome discovery of a severed head on the Tube soon becomes personal for former DI Cal Drake. After one betrayal too many, Drake has abandoned the police force to become a private detective. He’s teamed up with enigmatic forensic pathologist Dr Rayhana Crane and it’s not long before the case leads them to the darkest corners of the nation’s capital and in dangerously close contact with an international crime circuit, a brutal local rivalry and a very personal quest for retribution. With the murder victim tied to Drake’s past, his new future is about to come under threat.

The sixth thriller in the "Makana series" called "excellent" by Marilyn Stasio in the New York Times Book Review.

When an Englishman, Marcus Winslow, appears at Private Investigator Makana's door one April morning, Makana does not realize that he will soon risk losing everything he has built for himself in Cairo. Winslow represents the British Secret Intelligence Services and he has a special mission to offer, one that Makana cannot resist: Ayman Nizari, a dangerous specialist in biochemical nerve agents, is on the run and asking for asylum. The only person who can bring him in is Makana--by Nizari's own request.

Nizari has gone underground in Istanbul and Makana, for the first time since arriving in Egypt, must travel abroad, to a city he doesn't know. Can he trust Marcus Winslow? Or is something more sinister in the works?

In Istanbul, Makana soon realizes that nothing is what it appears to be. Suddenly, his past is racing to catch up with him, and Makana becomes both hunter and hunted.

Макана — беженец из Судана, где погибли его жена и дочь. Он живёт в Каире, еле-еле сводит концы с концами и работает частным детективом. Герой берётся буквально за любое дело (из-за тяжёлой финансовой ситуации выбирать не приходится), и однажды к нему за услугой обращается олигарх с тёмным прошлым и не менее опасным настоящим. Первый роман из серии о детективе Макана — отнюдь не дебют автора британско-суданского происхождения Джамала Махджуба, не так давно начавшего писать детективы под псевдонимом Паркер Билал. Главный герой «Золотых весов» не сыщик, а город Каир, который своей неправдоподобной жизнью оазиса в пустыне, мечты, обернувшейся пугающей и чарующей реальностью, напоминает Петербург Достоевского.