My utter, utter favourite. The lead character is a feisty but flawed orphan who follows a whim and ends up in a foreign country, surviving on her wits. Christie's spare prose gives all the heat and dust of Iraq; the pace is fast; the dialogue never clichéd. It is possibly more pertinent today than it was when written, revolving as it does around 'disaffected youth' and fundamentalism in the Middle East. |
