Word: mika
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DARK ANGEL (374 pp.)-Mika Waltari-Putnam...
...WANDERER (438 pp.)-Mika Waltari-Pufnam...
...Wanderer, by Mika Waltari, may be a bit of a disappointment to the author's fans. Its story moves intelligibly from episode to episode, and its characters are sufficiently self-consistent so that it is possible to tell them apart. But the old Waltari charm is not there. The hero is a Finnish boy named Michael who sails aboard a pilgrim ship for Palestine, only to be lugged off to the African slave markets by Moslem pirates. Thenceforward, he ricochets about the Ottoman Empire-from the fall of Algiers to the siege of Vienna to the campaigns in Persia...
...book has a sad ending, but there's a tussle with Saladin and a rousing trip to Constantinople before that, and all in all, Mika (The Egyptian) Waltari had better look to his laurels...
...Egyptian, by Mika Waltari...