Kamal Ruhayyim, born in Egypt in 1947, has a PhD in law from Cairo University. He is the author of a collection of short stories and four novels, as well as several books on law. Through his career in the Egyptian police force and as a head of Interpol he has lived in Cairo and Paris.
This isn't a reread but I still didn't write a full review for it because, eh, who cares? I had to read this (yes, just this book) for a class and found it unimpressive. I didn't hate it, but it was confusing (mostly because it's part of a three book series), though the characters were likable and the writing was nice (the translator was okay, though it was obvious that English wasn't the language this book was originally written in). I don't really have much else to say about it.