Anton Rider Trilogy: A Cafe on the Nile (Audiobook)

from Smiler69

Packed shock-full of adventure, this novel definitely falls into the 'thumping good read' category and I was thrilled to revisit some characters I had grown fond of on discovery in the first book in the Anton Rider trilogy, The White Rhino Hotel. I would definitely recommend new readers start wit...

from DeltaQueen50

A Café on the Nile by Bartle Bull is a rollicking adventure story filled with colourful characters in the exotic settings of Cairo and Ethiopia. The second in his African Trilogy, we are reconnected to many familiar characters from the first book. The timing is now 1935 and Cairo a city that mixe...

from autumna

A gorgeous novel that combines the adventure of Indiana Jones and the corruptive darkness of Film Noir. This second book of Bull's trilogy covers several different, yet intertwined, stories of expatriates living in Cairo before the outbreak of World War. It gives a unique and largely unheard view...

from danhammang

The great fun of this read is the wealth of material about the period - mid-1930s, the geography, the geology, history and equipage of this particular moment. I found I needed to exercise some restraint on my ongoing eagerness to set the book down so I could look for more information, or even bet...

from msf59

In this exciting follow-up to White Rhino Hotel, we return to Africa, just at the brink of World War II, with the Italian army advancing and getting ready to pounce, like a crazed jaguar. Anton Rider, the great hunter, is back, along with Olivio, the crafty and business-minded dwarf, who owns and...