The Lion of Cairo
by Scott Oden
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Cairo, 1167 A.D. Egypt is bleeding and the scent draws her enemies in like sharks. But the Caliph of Cairo has an unexpected ally: the Old Man of the Mountain. It is he who holds the ultimate power of life and death over the warring factions of the Moslem world, and it is he who sends his greatest weapon into Egypt, to serve the Caliph. He is but a single man but he is an Assassin: the one they call the Emir of the Knife.Tags
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This is one of my new favorites, a category that includes "Frankenstein," "Gone with the Wind," "Dracula," "The Hour of the Dragon," and "Lord of the Rings." This novel had the right strokes of adventure, history, and magic. As an homage to REH, the novel also works. I hope there is a sequel in the works, not only because of the strings left untended at the end, but because I want to read more adventures of Assad.
Do yourself a favor, if you are reading this review... read this novel. It takes a lot to impress me, and this novel impressed me. His writing was evocative, and drew me into the culture and world of Cairo at that time.
Do yourself a favor, if you are reading this review... read this novel. It takes a lot to impress me, and this novel impressed me. His writing was evocative, and drew me into the culture and world of Cairo at that time.
This was entertaining. I'm pretty sure he is trying to set up a series. Bernard Cornwall fans would enjoy this adventure. (Although this is lassified as historical fiction, I think that's a stretch.)
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U zlatnoj palati, mladi kalif Rašid al Hasan vlada posrnulim carstvom. Kairo je ogrezao u intrige. U senci Sive džamije, vojskovođe i emiri utrkuju se za naklonost okrutnog velikog vezira Džalala, a ne prezaju ni od ubistva kako bi uklonili protivnike. Egipat krvari, a njegovi neprijatelji skupljaju se poput ajkula: Širkuh, sluga damaskog sultana i Amalrik, hrišćanski kralj Jerusalima, show more čija pohlepa nema granica.
Međutim, kalif od Kaira ima neobičnog saveznika – starca koji živi na udaljenoj planini. U njegovim rukama nalazi se oružje koje može odrediti sudbinu zaraćenih kalifata. To oružje zapravo je jedan čovek. Asasin... show less
Međutim, kalif od Kaira ima neobičnog saveznika – starca koji živi na udaljenoj planini. U njegovim rukama nalazi se oružje koje može odrediti sudbinu zaraćenih kalifata. To oružje zapravo je jedan čovek. Asasin... show less
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- Canonical title
- The Lion of Cairo
- Original publication date
- 2010
- Important places
- Cairo, Egypt
- Epigraph
- Kan ma kan
Fi qadim azzamam
There was, there was not,
In the oldness of time...
Traditional Bedouin Rhyme - Dedication
- To Robert E. Howard, whose tales of swordplay and sorcery gave inspiration to a kid from Alabama, and caused him to take up the pen in his own name.
- First words
- The rasp and slither of steel died away, the sound lost to a wind that howled over snow-clad ridges, pouring into the passes and sheltered valleys of the high Afghan Mountains.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Turning, she followed the necromancer into shadow.
- Blurbers
- Pressfield, Steven; Durham, David Anthony
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