I don't know about you, but I always assumed that writing scandalous and gratuitous kinky sex scenes wasn't invented until around 1990. This book published in 1980 and set in WWII set me straight on that one. William Vandam is a British Intelligence Officer in Cairo who is hunting Alex Wolff, a suspected German spy. In order to hide, Alex Wolff has to have lots of crazy sex with an Egyptian burlesque dancer who is into threesomes. In order to capture him, Vandam has to enlist (have sex with) Elene, a mistress in between protectors. In between all the rather kinky and sometimes disturbing sex, is a good spy mystery. About 80% through, the author inexplicably changes from the third person and tells two vignettes (for lack of a better word) in first person. I was thrown out of the story. Why? I don't know why his editor didn't tell him that it didn't work well and get him to change it. But overall a very worthwhile easy read.
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