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Author’s first novel. Comes complete with the pulisher’s publicity handout. Large paperback. The book weaves together history and legend in a tale of murder and espionage in the spirit of The Thousand and One Nights. Baghdad, the capital of the world, is a city crowded with stories, and founded on secrets. But some secrets, and some stories, can be deadly… Ismail al-Rawiya is a thief who dreams of being a poet. He is drawn to Baghdad and falls into the company of the poet Abu Nuwas, known as the Father of the Locks. Together the poet and the thief uncover a hidden world of forbidden cults, foreign spies and a mysterious Brass Bottle.