Thieves Fall Out (Hardcover)

from AnnieMod

An ex-soldier from WWII, ex-small time criminal (maybe ex anyway) washes up in Cairo, spending the days in doing nothing. Until one day he gets robbed and the American embassy is not in any hurry to help him. So Peter Wells needs to find his own way - and a job that just appears out of nowhere se...

from ssimon2000

4 stars"Thieves Fall Out" is a fast read that places the reader in post-WWII Egypt, which was still considered an exotic and fascinating locale. In this book, Egypt is a hotbed of intrigue left over from the war. There is corruption everywhere, along with a fortune in ancient treasure just waitin...

from ssimon2000

4 stars"Thieves Fall Out" is a fast read that places the reader in post-WWII Egypt, which was still considered an exotic and fascinating locale. In this book, Egypt is a hotbed of intrigue left over from the war. There is corruption everywhere, along with a fortune in ancient treasure just waitin...

from Unkletom

Gore Vidal, renowned for his more literary work, did go through a rough early in his career and supplemented his income by writing several crime novels under the pseudonyms Edgar Box and Cameron Kay. The Edgar Box books have lings since been re-released under his own name but 'Thieves Fall Out', ...

from DaveWilde

"Thieves Fall Out" is a fun, fast read that transports the reader to post WWII Egypt, which, when this was written in the fifties, was still considered an exotic and fascinating locale. Egypt, in this book, is a hotbed of intrigue and spies left over from the war. There is corruption and deceit e...