Praise for The Last Cut... "Oh, this is just a fine novel....With great and gentle humour, excellent dialogue and a twisty plot...Pearce enthralls and entertains us....Great story, marvelously executed." -Carl Brookins, author of the Michael Tanner mysteries For millennia, Egypt has depended upon the waters of the Nile to flood and fertilize the land. A barrage or dam-like structure several miles above Cairo controls the flow of water to southern Egypt through a series of regulators. Now, someone has attempted to blow up one of them. Damaging a regulator is not a petty matter, so Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, Chief of Cairo"s Secret Police, is hurriedly summoned. He hasn"t a clue what a regulator is. Nor can he identify the mysterious Lizard Man who seems to have a grudge against the whole Egyptian irrigation system. But he knows that the ceremonial cutting of the temporary dam thrown up each year across the mouth of the Khalig Canal restarts the whole irrigation cycle and is cause for...