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An American disappears while running guns in #Morocco. Receiving an urgent letter from him, his brother Darrell comes to find him. Darrell finds nothing but shady characters & shadier circumstances as he travels the country piecing together what happened. Set mostly in Tangiers, we get to see vast swaths of the country, too. The mystery is excellent & a twist so surprising no one could possibly guess it. Highly recommended. #readingafrica2022

Quick #readingafrica2022 challenge update. I‘m reading three M‘s right now: #Morocco (the tagged book), #Mauritania, and #Mozambique. @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Jack Vance is a master of description. Here, he could have said the car drove swiftly around the corner. Instead:

“The car swooped over the crest of the hill, veered around a corner. Ellen lifted her foot from the accelerator, fed power halfway through the turn. Darrell gripped the door. White villas fled astern like wisps of cloud behind an airplane.”

That last sentence just blows me away.

#Morocco #readingafrica2022

The husband has loaned me one of his priceless Jack Vance books (he has all his books, mostly in limited editions and many signed) for #Morocco #readingafrica2022. So this one is my next IRL read. Jack Vance was a sci-fi writer, my husband‘s first love, but Vance also wrote many mysteries. This is one of them and it won the Edgar Award in 1960. I‘m excited to read it and it‘s short! @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB