Release Date: December, 2010
Hardcover; Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press

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There was, there was not, in the oldness of time . . .

On the banks of the ageless Nile, from a palace of gold and lapis lazuli, the young Fatimid Caliph Rashid al-Hasan rules as a figurehead over a crumbling empire.  Cairo is awash in intrigues.  In the shadow of the Gray Mosque, generals and emirs jockey for position under the scheming eyes of the powerful grand vizier, Jalal; in the crowded Souk, these factions use murder and terror to silence their opposition.  Egypt bleeds and the scent draws her enemies in like sharks.  Yet, the Caliph of Cairo has an unexpected ally—the Hidden Master of Alamut, who holds the ultimate power of life and death over the warring factions of the Moslem world.  He sends his greatest weapon into Egypt.

He sends Caliph Rashid al-Hasan a single man.  An Assassin.  The one they call the Emir of the Knife . . .

With THE LION OF CAIRO (Book One of the Emir of the Knife trilogy), Scott Oden leaves Antiquity behind for the blood-soaked sands of medieval Egypt.  He presents a vivid, unrelenting novel that masterfully blends fantasy and history to create a rollicking tale of intrigue and thunderous battle set against the true jewel of the Arabian Nights, Cairo of the Fatimid Caliphs.