This political political thriller was completed in 1995, long before 9/11, the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement. The book foreshadows all three and is more topical now than when it was written, given recent developments in Northern Africa and South-West Asia. The main characters in this novel are a coloured German journalist, who is sent to Tunesia to report on the murder of an elderly German woman, allegedly by a Tunesian boy; a beautiful woman painter from New York, who is looking for the murderer of her sister, who was involved in the drugs trade; a wealthy retired US diplomat who...