Ash on the Tongue

"Cairo, 1972.
American student Dusty Abbott arrives in town to enroll at the American University. Soon she's enmeshed in a love affair with playboy Adel Shahata.
But Adel is engaged to marry the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, part of a business merger between their families. The affair with Dusty sets off a chain reaction that shakes Cairo's high society.
Pierre Farag is recruited to disentangle Adel from the affair. But is Dusty Abbott who she claims? Why is the Soviet Embassy suddenly interested in Pierre Farag? And who will pay the ultimate price for meddling in preparations for the coming war with Israel?"