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A jaded French fixer with a taste for tête de veau and zero illusions is dispatched to the glittering desert mirage of Abu Dhabi. His mission: find a missing Uzbek beauty named Amara Kamalova — part-time spy, full-time enigma — who was cozy with a shady Iranian arms dealer.What follows is a razor-sharp, darkly comic plunge into the Gulf’s underbelly: opulent hotel brunches dripping with champagne ... Read more

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