Biographie de Michael Pearce
Michael Pearce grew up in the (then) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan among the various tensions he draws on for his " Mamur Zapt series ". He returned there later to teach, and retains a human rights interest in the area. in between whiles, his career has followed the standard academic rake's progress from teaching to writing to editing to administration. He finds international politics a pallid imitation of academic ones. He lives in London. This novel is his twelfth Mamur Zapt novel ; the thir-teenth in the series, " A Cold Touch of Ice, is available in hardcover from Collins Crime. Michael Pearce is the winner of the Crime Writers'Associations Last Laugh Award for Funniest Crime Novel of the Year for "The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt". He is also the author of the acclaimed Dmitri Kameron crime series, set in Tsarist Russia.