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An explosion that brings down the Egyptian consulate in Khartoum; two men known to each other since their university days, one a journalist, the other a secret service officer, both now living in Sudan; a respectable lady working as an advocate for the Muslim Brotherhood; an adolescent boy of Egyptian origin living in the US and on a visit in Sudan, who carries explosives in his suitcase…. These are some of the elements of the Egyptian author Izzedin Shukri’s novel, a novel that not only describes the network of terrorism or that of secret services but also the entanglement of individuals therein.