Word: sakkara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baffling Charm. Author Newby peoples his lively books with rogues and innocents and makes both types fresh and fascinating. In The Picnic at Sakkara, he wittily chronicled the blundering adventures of Edgar Perry, a British innocent at large in King Farouk's Egypt. The baffling charm and evasive malevolence of a restive Egypt have never been better evoked, or with more understanding. In The Barbary Light, his hero is a rogue who has all the equipment needed to be a killer except the killer's instinct - in fact, Owen suffers from immoral flabbiness. Newby, moreover...